Making physical machine a VM guest

[mrdata]

This has likely been discussed many times before, however I can't seem to generate the correct search terms to find it.

I have a failing Windows 7 laptop. The screen is streaked and the backlight flickers.
I don't want to start over rebuilding the OS and all the apps.
I want to clone it and run it as a VM on a new laptop.
The new laptop has lots of hutzpah, fully tricked out Lenovo W520, and I am sure it will be adequate. It is running Windows 7 as well.

I installed VMbox on the new machine, works fine.
Now I want to somehow grab the system from the old machine and make it a VM on the new one.

Any way to do this - just a point in the right direction will be greatly appreciated.

Mike

[Perryg]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 56415.aspx

You will need to deal with the difference in drivers & reactivation but you would have to do that anyway.