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

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 

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[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>:
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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 :(
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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...
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So I Googled for "migrating windows 7 to hyper-v" and I have got this
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Converting a physical Windows Machine to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine P2V
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which didn't sound very optimistic.
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Then  I have read this one:
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Moving physical windows 7 to Hyper - V on windows 2008 r2
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which sounded optimistic. So I'm going to try now Disk2VHD:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx
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Did anybody here used Disk2VHD tool to make sucessfull conversion of Win7
(Ultimate) PC to a Hyper-V VM?
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