Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Nov 22 11:55:10 CST 2012
Sorry to hear of your problems. We are all hoping you get a solution as it will then decide which OS will be the base and which the virtual drive or will it be that Win8 just has to run on its own separate computer with only compatible applications installed? Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov Shamil Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 6:49 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Converting a physical Windows Machine to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine Tried to get converted just 150 GB HDDs (C, D) - Dish2VHD (as it did in the first case) just created one file 4,193,878 bytes long and stopped. It looks like the issue is with USB disk having FAT32? Thank you. -- Shamil Thu 22 Nov 2012 18:23:26 от Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>: > > > > >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-phys ical-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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com