Doug Steele
dbdoug at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 18:49:01 CST 2011
Hi Shamil: I think you'll be surprised at how fast VMs run on your computer, even with 3Gb and 32bit Windows. I have VMWare Workstation. I normally use VMs to run different versions of Office for Access development. Most of them are 20-25Gb. The first time I tried to convert an actual physical machine to a VM, I was surprised to find that the size of the resulting VM was going to be the total of EVERY file on the Windows boot drive - I wasn't ready to create a 200GB VM! I did convert one old Windows 2000 server machine to a VM successfully (as a backup before I sent the computer to recycling), but before I converted it, I removed as many programs and files as I could while still keeping it functional. Doug On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>wrote: > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-VB mailing list > dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >