[nflug] Dump XP image to VMWARE

[JJ Neff]

The company I work for invested heavily in VMWare ESX hosts (redhat /linux black boxes) and P2V'd tons of Windows Servers.  We P2V stuff all the time.  However not XP workstations.
Win2K and 2003 seem to P2V just fine, but as Cyber pointed out XP will assume you stole it and call the Software police and lock all your doors or something.

After a P2V and start of the virtualized server it is a matter of rerunning some driver executables since you essentially swapped all the hardware when the machine was off.

JJN

----- Original Message ----
From: anthonyriga <torrodimerda at yahoo.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:43:39 AM
Subject: Re: [nflug] Dump XP image to VMWARE

Pete

  I was reading on vmwares site there is a p2v
assistant that will take a gost image of a pc and let
you dump it to a vmworkstation. I bet the windows part
wont work becasue of driver issues. I cant tell on
ther site if you can dump the windows image to a Linux
Host
with p2v. 

Thanks for the help!

--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:

> anthonyriga wrote:
> > Does anyone have any tricks to dumping and XP
> ghost
> > image to wmvare workstation or player? Or dumping
> the
> > OS to a vmware image?
> >
> >
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> Also, doing a Linux one is very cool. For instance,
> I made one with my 
> old FC4 because I couldn't get some of my installs
> working in my Ubuntu 
> (php, web based stuff, mysql) because of newer
> versions of stuff etc., 
> so I made an image of my old FC4 and run that in
> vmware, this way it 
> fires up apache and stuff and I can still do my work
> just by hitting the 
> IP of the vmware station. I even made some crons in
> the vmware station 
> to write the important data to my new box in case of
> bad things. This 
> was a great workaround until I fix what I need on
> the new box.
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