Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Mon Nov 28 17:50:11 CST 2011
Hi All -- Never mind - I have got visited VMWare site and I have got downloaded a free utility - VMWare vCenter Converter http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ and then I have run test conversion of Internet Explorer Compatibility VPC image http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 into VMDK format. Then I have got setup VMWAre workstation (trial version - http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/overview.html) and voila' - I have got up & running converted into VMDK 'Internet Explorer Compatibility VPC image, and I'm using it right now to prepare this message. I'm going to try to download now 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (SP1) http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27417 convert it into VMDK and try to run it on my test laptop - 32bit Win7 system with 3+GB RAM. We will see. It will be very slow very probably but I just have to know will it run at all - and when it will hopefully will then I will start assembling my new system box part by part... And I'm going to purchase VMWare workstation license in the near future - VMWare workstation has a feature of converting physical PCs into VMDK images. (Although VMWare workstation may fail to setup and run on Win2003 Server - we will see...) Thank you for all your help. -- Shamil 29 ноября 2011, 00:18 от Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>: > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-VB mailing list > dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >