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With that said and in the case of an existing hard drive from a physical system hooked up as an external drive then depending on one's knowledge, skills and ability I would have to say that in the long run it may just be easier and faster to clean build a native file based Virtual Machine with a Windows OS and then transfer the User Data from the external hard drive to the new Virtual Machine however there are other options.
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Note: I have Windows Live OS CD/DVD's and or ISO Images that contain all the software necessary to do this easily and if I didn't I'd use Knoppix 5.1.1 and dd to do the same thing only with dd the vHDD has to be the same size as the pHDD.Īlso instead of a repair install using the Windows Live OS CD/DVD and or ISO Image I would attempt to inject the necessary drivers and windows registry entries similar to what VMware Converter does however unless you know what your doing your better of doing a Repair Install as it for the most part keeps everything intact as far as Programs and Data although it's not always 100% all the time either and this is why I've always say something to the effect. Boot the newly Ghosted Virtual Machine with the Windows XP CD and do a Repair install to rectify the Hardware differences. Ghost the HDD Ghost Image to the new Virtual Machine.Ĥ. I am aware of VMAudioFixTray, but I am starting. Create a Virtual Machine with a vHDD the appropriate size based on how much disk space is actually taken on the HDD and add some additional space based upon my needs.ģ. Choppy sound on VMware (affecting 2000/XP/Vista Guests) This is quite an annoying problem that has been a roadblock to my efforts to emulate old software on VMware: unless I run VLC on my host, the sound on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista virtual machines are really choppy or distorted. If I was in your situation and wanted to try without having to install everything from scratch here is a general outline of what I'd do.ġ. Using dd it creates an identical copy of the existing hard drive and if you want to run th existing hdd as a normal file based Virtual Machine then creating an ISO is not the way to go. I still prefer to save to VHD format for Windows 2000.I've never tried creating an ISO of a Hard Drive to transfer or create a Virtual Machine from since I have Ghost and ro can use dd although I doubt it would do you any good because of the need for partition information and boot sector info etc, etc which I don't think you'd capture making an ISO Image. You can save them to a local drive or if you have a fast network (from my experience 1 Gbps LAN connection would save a 40 GB hard disk in a matter of 15 minutes via network) you can use an existing sharedįolder. Boot up the second computer and make a note of the new volumes.Install the hard disk on a computer with Windows XP (anything above that is OK too).Shutdown the server and take off the hard disk.Make sure that your grandpa server is running on W2K SP4.
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Only offline conversion is possible with Disk2Vhd This tool uses VSS and VSS is not available at Windows 2000. Just make sure to stop any running services such as SQL before perfroming the P2V to make sure that no Data is changed or updated during the conversion.ĭisk2Vhd does not Support Windows 2000. You can succesfully perfrom the P2V using Disk2Vhd.
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Both of which don't do well in a VM.ĭisclaimer: Attempting change is of your own free will. There are cases where these old legacy systems depend on some hardware component, or are exclusively single threaded. So there are no integration components - all devices must be emulated.Īlso, be sure that your application can handle running in a VM. Because Server 2000 was never a supported OS. The same process that you used with 20 to move a server to new hardware and carry forward the installed applications and system settings.īackup, install OS on new hardware (VM in this case), restore into new OS install / new hardware. Now, you can use the Windows Server Backup and restore process. There is no free tool that will give you much success, but instead long hours of pain. P2V of 'old' operating systems is actually very complex, due to the OS not handling device and hardware changes (like current OS versions do). Back in the day PlateSpin were the only option for 'P2V'.