Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3073 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bryen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 22:22 -0500, Ken Jennings wrote:
> > On Wednesday 2008-01-02 21:58, Robert Smits wrote:
> > > On my laptop, I currently have a dual boot Windows/OpenSuse 10.3 setup. I
> > > have installed VMWare Server.
> > >
> > > This laptop is a Compaq X1000, and comes with a hidden partition and XP
> > > Home install disks.
> > >
> > > I'd like to get rid of the XP and hidden partitions, and just have XP
> > > installed in VMWare.
> > >
> > > The question is whether I can just copy my whole XP partition or do I need
> > > to install XP Home in the VMWare Server. Are there other issues caused by
> > > this configuration I should be aware of?
> > After adding dual boot with suse I tried to make the natively installed 
> > Windows XP on a Dell 4700C function with VMware.  I could never get it any 
> > farther with VMware than a BSOD in the middle of booting XP.  I'm sure 
> > there's someone else who managed to successsfully run a native install given 
> > the right set of hardware or phase of the moon or what not.  I couldn't.  
> > WinXP worked much better installing it under VMWare.
>
> You need to use a p2v (physical to virtual) converter.  A straight copy
> isn't going to do the trick.  Platespin.com is one p2v vendor that comes
> to mind.

Looking at the site, I don't think that does what you think it does.

From Platespin's description, it appears that it moves workloads
around mid-execution.  This is similar to the job-migration 
capability in some tools sold by Platform Computing (platform.com)

I don't see anything that will convert an installed Windows OS
on a physical machine into a virtualized installation within VMWare.


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