Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Thu Nov 22 08:23:26 CST 2012
Hi All -- I have just tried to run Disk2VHD to convert 300GB HDD driven Physical PC into a VM (I wanted to keep it temporarily on my new system while getting it tuned) - the target was a USB disk with 530GB of free space but Disk2VHD worked for a whuile and then reported that there is not enough space to make VHD :( Thank you. -- Shamil Thu 22 Nov 2012 17:26:23 от Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>: > > > > >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 > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >