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Existing pc image deployment within VM?
Posted: 25. Mar 2014, 18:43
by davejr72
Is it possible to deploy an image of an existing physical PC within a VM using VirtualBox?
I have an XP machine with legacy software that is essentially irreplaceable and would like to make an image of that computer and deploy it on a Win 7 machine. Any input is appreciated.
Re: Existing pc image deployment within VM?
Posted: 25. Mar 2014, 18:54
by mpack
Google for "P2V site:forums.virtualbox.org".
Re: Existing pc image deployment within VM?
Posted: 25. Mar 2014, 20:43
by davejr72
Thank you. After more searching I finally found that I can use Disk2VHD and deploy that in a VirtualBox. Going to give it a try. Will post my results.
Re: Existing pc image deployment within VM?
Posted: 29. Apr 2014, 20:46
by eVe
Hello everyone.
I really ask you guys for help.
i am a beginner oracle database administrator,so for my study i decided to deploy an image of our database server on Virtual machine.
I used ocarle vm ver. 4.3.10 ะบ 93012 and disk2vhd utility and created an image placed into vhd disk..... First attempt to deploy an image was succesful, but due the chanches in hardware i had a message on VM to activate a windows. I repeated this at home and at work, vm worked. At work we use a couple of applications working with oracle database and base increases everyday and i decided to create another fresh image. Now i cant deploy it in vm nore at home neither at work, the version of Vm is the same, i downloaded other version of disk2vhd. the system on vm starts and hangs deadly
BUT!Guys this new image runs on vmware machine and it runs a little slowly but anyway
it runs!!!
what did i do wrong with my favorite virtual box?

The server i made an image from, runs under windows server 2003 enterprise.
Guys please heelp! i googled a lot but cant find any solvation
sorry for bad english and hopefully wait for any answer...
Eve