[dba-Tech] New virtual drive

Steve, 

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

I was trying so many different things, I am not sure exactly what I did.
This is what I think I did.

Since I was running VMware workstation on the pc to be converted, I had to
convert from another machine.

1) I installed VMware converter (VC) on the other machine.
2) I then ran VC against a Ghost 14 image on that target machine.
3) After the drive was created, I think that I then created a new VM how I
wanted it and then connected it to the virtual drive created in #2.
4) Once I brought up the new VM, it all worked!  I did have to
re-authenticate windows, biut it was all done through the web.  I did not
have to call.

Thanks,
Bobby

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:38 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] New virtual drive

Bobby,

Are you saying that you restored from the Ghost image to the "fresh" virtual
machine you created and voilá!  The newly restored VM booted up without a
hitch?  Did the "fresh" virtual drive have to be prepped in any way?  That
is, did you "format" it first?

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Bobby Heid <bheid at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> John,
>
> I used VMware Converter (http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/) to
> convert my Vista64 PC using a Ghost 14 backup image to a VM with great
> success.  I think, from what I read, that doing V2PC for stuff other than
> Vista is pretty easy.
>
> Bobby
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:31 AM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] New virtual drive
>
> Hi Steve,
> What technique do you use for doing this?
>
> I am doing a job this week where I'm setting up VPC VMs on a new XP
> machine.
>
> The client currently runs a number of DOS apps on a Win98 PC.
>
> My plans are to create a DOS VM and copy the DOS apps/files over to it and
> see if I can skip Win98 altogether. But there may also be some little used
> applications on this PC that may require Win98. The problem is that this
is
> a production machine and I can't have the time with it to determine this
> until I get the apps/files/hardware all working for the DOS programs which
> are vital to daily ops. Once that is accomplished I can determine if I
need
> to image the HD and create a Win98 VM.
>
> I was planning on using Acronis for imaging the HD and converting to a
> Win98
> VM this but would welcome any suggestions.
>
> John B.
>
>
>
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