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Re: [LUG] Speaking of VirtualBox ...

 

 >>>>
Thanks for that. I'll digest it when I can, but I have a pretty busy
week coming up (including a trip to Sheffield which takes a whole day -
oh joy!)
Gordon


Honestly, for a single 8Gb win2ksp4 P2V conversion it's just 30 minutes
work. Download and install VMware standalone converter and install on
the old box: run and follow the wizard, dumping the resulting image
across the network straight to the new VM host. Create a blank win2k VM
in VirtualBox, attach the converted image to it as the hard drive.
Snapshot, start, install guest additions, run windows update, restart,
re-snapshot, done. Unless you have some really sophisticated stuff
running on that win2k machine (yeah, right) it'll be a walk in the park.

Cheers,

Mat

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