Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 02:59:55 CST 2010
Thanks Steve, that is great news, I will try Sysinternals today Mark 2010/1/13 Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> > Mark, > > >> First to Steve: you mentioned that you had to use an XP Cd to perform a > repair / upgrade. Is that because the machine was Win98? Could you not > have left it running as Win98. The reason I ask is I have an XP Laptop I > want to P2V so I am wondering will I still need to dig out a XP disk, or if > I am happy with the OS, can I use the tools you kindly recommdned and I > will > be good to go. << > > I'm sorry if I confused the issue. John asked about Windows 98. I have > not > converted a Windows 98 machine to a VM...I've only done it successfully > with > two Windows XP Pro machines. > > I had to dig out the XP disk because converting an existing physical XP > machine to a VM requires that Windows XP be informed as to the different > hardware available to it. It's similar to extracting a Windows hard disk > from one machine and installing it into a completely different PC and > trying > to get it to boot. You have to run a repair on Windows to get it to > recognize the new hardware and install the necessary drivers. > > The Sysinternals Disk2vhd program simply converts the existing hard disk to > a VHD file with no alteration of the contents of the drive. The repair has > to be done on Windows to get it to boot as a VM using Microsoft Virtual PC. > My educated guess would be that something similar has to be done with any > other virtualizing software before a converted bootable drive can be made > to > run under a virtualization scheme. > > My 2nd XP machine that I converted to a VM was a royal pain in the neck > because its registry was a little flaky. I finally used PCTools Registry > Mechanic to iron out its wobbles. That allowed a "clean" VHD to be > created. > THEN I could repair the Windows install. > > Regards, > > Steve Erbach > Neenah, WI > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I am reading this thread with baited breath. > > > > ( > > By they way, is that the correct spelling of baited, should it be bated, > as > > in unabated. > > > > Haha, I just googled this question, and if you do not mind, I will leave > it > > here for amusement > > http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm > > http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bated-breath.html > > > > ) > > > > > > Back to the thread. > > > > First to Steve: you mentioned that you had to use an XP Cd to perform a > > repair / upgrade. Is that because the machine was Win98? Could you not > > have left it running as Win98. The reason I ask is I have an XP Laptop I > > want to P2V so I am wondering will I still need to dig out a XP disk, or > if > > I am happy with the OS, can I use the tools you kindly recommdned and I > > will > > be good to go. > > > > To Bobby:My brother is trying to convince me to switch to VMWare instead > of > > VM by MS, including the HyperV Services that I am happy with on W2k8. Do > > you think that VM ware is better, If so, should I try to install from > > scratch or can I load it on top of W2k8. I get the impression from a > first > > pass on the VM ware site that there are two breeds of VM ware, on that > > installs over an existing OS and one that installs on a bare metal box - > is > > that a correct assumption? If so, I have to assume that the bare metal > box > > is much better. > > > > > > To All: > > This year I build a number of VM machines, Win2k3, 2k8, Vista, Win7, XP > Pro > > etc. My experience was pretty much good. I can use them as IIS Servers, > > SQL Servers etc with no probs. However, when I try to use the Vista or > the > > W7 machine as a Front End machine, IOW as a machine where the primary > > function is to server a fast GUI then I was dis-satasfied. IOW, I can > use > > it for a few minutes or hours even, but when I was the sort of response > > time > > you get from a native machine, the VM was not giving it. Sure it can > load > > MS word or VS2008, but I found small delays of 1/2 second to be tireseome > > when traversing VS2008 or SSMS etc. > > > > IOW, my personal summary was for rapid response from a GUI stick with > > physical machine, but the VM were really really good as a second choice. > > > > I built up a library of machine that I do not touch, and a second library > > that I use, but can delete and replace with the clean machine at anytime. > > > > One last thing, you can move machines from Virtual Server to HyperV, but > > you > > have to re-activate Windows when you move them. > > One other last thing, since I saw how good HyperV is, I do not wish to > ever > > use Virtual Server again. > > AFAIK, HyperV requires W2k8 > > > > Hope someone benefits from this and you do not have to wait with bated > > breath again like me:) > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > 2010/1/13 Bobby Heid <bheid at sc.rr.com> > > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >