[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-----
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> [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.
>
>
>