[dba-Tech] New virtual drive

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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