Comments on: The missing VMware freebie

By: peet

peet — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:09:48 +0000

Then why don’t you use Microsoft’s free physical machine converter to virtualize your pc’s and afterwards you can use those created vm’s in VMware as they SHOULD be compatible ;-)

By: Markus Schraudolph

Markus Schraudolph — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:19:33 +0000

It was an old machine running Windows 2000. I don´t know whether this migration path works using Linux images.

By: Stefan Rubner

Stefan Rubner — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:17:57 +0000

If this additional step via Ghost would provide a way to migrate Linux systems, I’m quite certain many folks would find this acceptable. So, what OS was installed on your old notebook?

By: Markus Schraudolph

Markus Schraudolph — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:55:58 +0000

Maybe not what you really want to do: recently I sucessfully used the import tool of VMware Workstation to convert the Norton Ghost image of my old notebook to a VM.
In your case this would mean an additional intermediate step.

By: Stefan Rubner

Stefan Rubner — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:24:24 +0000

I already sent an inquiry to VMware. Let’s see what they’ll say. Besides: In my case it’s only Windows machines to be migrated, so I’d be quite happy with what P2V provides – as would most likely be the case for the majority of users.

By: Gaston Annebicque

Gaston Annebicque — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:04:07 +0000

I’m currently in the same kind of problem !

Also the problem with the VMWare P2V product is that it can convert Windows only system, and all my system are on linux Redhat ES3.

I’m thinking about buying the powerconvert product from platespin (http://www.platespin.com/products/powerconvertmain.aspx) which seems more powerfull. The pricing makes it around 150€ per server conversion.

If you find a free solution, let us know !

Gaston