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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >