[Discuss] migrate existing Windows installations to VirtualBox

[Jerry Feldman]

On 12/27/2012 09:02 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> 5. VMWare and VirtualBox provide methods to convert an existing physical
>> machine to virtual. (PtoV). This way you can take your physically
>> installed Windows and convert them to a virtual container. VMWare has a
>> free tool you can use for this.
> I'm going to give this a spin shortly, following this guide:
>
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows
>
> Anyone tried this? Any opinion as to whether VirtualBox or VMWare is
> more suitable to this task?
No, but I have used the VMWare tool. You can use the VMWare P2V to
create a VMWare VM and import it to VBox.

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