[dba-Tech] Converting a physical Windows Machine to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Hi All --

I wanted to convert Win7 Ultimate physical PC to a Hyper-V one. I have previously planned to make VMWare VM from that physical Pc but it happened VMWare workstation doesn't setup under Win8 Pro with Hyper-V enabled. And I'd like to not keep Hyper-V feature enabled/disabled as I have to run Win8 Phone emulator, which needs active Hyper-V...

So I Googled for "migrating windows 7 to hyper-v" and I have got this article:

Converting a physical Windows Machine to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine P2V Problem
http://www.interactivewebs.com/blog/index.php/server-tips/converting-a-physical-windows-machine-to-a-hyper-v-virtual-machine-p2v-problem/

which didn't sound very optimistic.

Then  I have read this one:

Moving physical windows 7 to Hyper - V on windows 2008 r2

http://serverfault.com/questions/150640/moving-physical-windows-7-to-hyper-v-on-windows-2008-r2
 
which sounded optimistic. So I'm going to try now Disk2VHD: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

Did anybody here used Disk2VHD tool to make sucessfull conversion of Win7 (Ultimate) PC to a Hyper-V VM?

Thank you.

-- Shamil