Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Mon Nov 28 14:16:58 CST 2011
Hi Mark, Gustav at all -- Now, when I'm going to take VMWare vSphere route I wanted to make a temporary/transitional "virtual copy" of my physical system box running MS Windows 2003 Server together with its harddisk (250GB) partitioned into one system drive and 5 logical drives. Are there any free/inexpensive tools to make such a virtual copy as VHD and/or VMDK image/set of images? As far as I understand I should be able to use this "virtual copy/machine" as an active virtual machine running under VMWare or I can just mount its virtual harddisks to get their data transferred on the new system/archived?... Thank you. -- Shamil 28 ноября 2011, 14:53 от "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>: > Hi Shamil et al > > Here is a free tool: > > http://www.starwindsoftware.com/converter > > to: > > <quote> > Convert VMDK to VHD and VHD to VMDK for free > > StarWind Converter is a downloadable V2V conversion tool for virtual machines. You can use it to convert VMDK to VHD files and VHD to VMDK as well as to IMG file, which is a native StarWind format. This is a very simple but useful file conversion tool that will convert virtual hard drive images from VMware's VMDK format into the Microsoft's VHD format. It is a sector by sector copy operation from one format to the other. It does not modify the source image and will leave it so you can continue to use it. > </quote> > > /gustav > > >>> Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> 28-11-2011 11:19 >>> > Hello Mark -- > > Yes, that VMWare vSphere Hypervisor sounds promising. > Did you work with it and did it worked well as described in the VMWare ads? > > Also, the > > 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (SP1) > http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27417 > > is a Hyper-V image AFAUI. Is there any (easy and cost effective) ways to convert that Hyper-V image into an WMare image? > > Thank you. > > -- Shamil > >