[dba-Tech] Casper and Virtual PC 2007

Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com
Fri Jun 12 12:57:26 CDT 2009


Steve,
This is truly great stuff.  I'm looking around at all the spare boxen so 
I can do similar things - put virtual machines everywhere and ghost 
them.  Sounds as though Casper is working well.
T

Steve Erbach wrote:
> ...and, by God!  It worked!  I'm sending this Gmail from Google Chrome
> from inside my newly cloned VPC with 60 GB of space instead of 20.
>
> Now, if I can only do what I did with my old-old workstation with my
> old workstation...
>
> Steve Erbach
> Neenah, WI
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Steve Erbach<erbachs at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Dear Group,
>>
>> Continuing to dabble with Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.  I've increased
>> the number of VPCs on my host system steadily.  I now have:
>>
>> DOS 6.22
>> Windows 95B
>> Windows 98SE
>> Windows 2000
>> Windows XP 32-bit (3 of them)
>> Windows 7 RC 32-bit
>> Windows Server 2003 32-bit
>>
>> I eagerly downloaded the RC for Windows Server 2008 R2, but the
>> installation routine says I need a 64-bit environment.  With Virtual
>> PC 2007, I can't create a 64-bit virtual PC even though my host OS is
>> Windows XP x64.  Oh, well.
>>
>> Anyway, one of the XP 32-bit VPCs is the one I managed to create from
>> an existing XP system after much labor.  My goal was to NOT have to
>> re-install any of the software from this existing system which was
>> about 8 old.  But I made the mistake of making the hard disk the same
>> size as the original: 20 GB.  It has about 25% free space on it and I
>> couldn't figure out how to convert the "fixed" virtual hard disk to a
>> "dynamic".
>>
>> But then I remembered some other discussions about VPC on OT where
>> Lembit, I think, said that he used Acronis to copy virtual drives.  I
>> use Casper 5.0 and I thought that it wouldn't do the same sort of
>> thing.
>>
>> But then, since I'm still unencumbered with a job, I thought I'd
>> create a new dynamic virtual hard disk with a 60 GB capacity and test
>> whether Casper 5.0 would, indeed, create a bootable copy of my 20 GB
>> virtual hard disk.
>>
>> Right now Casper is cloning the 20 GB virtual drive onto the 60 GB
>> dynamic virtual drive.  I don't know yet whether it will actually
>> boot, but I should know if a short while.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Steve Erbach
>>     
>
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