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[Discuss] migrate existing Windows installations to VirtualBox



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?

 -Tom

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Tom Metro
Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA
"Enterprise solutions through open source."
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