On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:40:49 Ken Schneider wrote:
John Andersen pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Ken Schneider
wrote: Does anyone have any experience cloning Vista installed on a new machine to a VM? I recently purchased a new laptop and would like have Vista in a VM then having to dual boot this machine. Well, at least until a driver is finished for the Hauppauge 950Q HVR.
-- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 --
It sort of matters which VM you are talking about. Vmware has utilities for this. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html I have not used these.
I have used CloneZilla. But not with vista. The biggest thing with CloneZilla is to get the disk sizes exact between the original and the clone because its prettymuch an image copy.
Still, I think you will run afoul of Microsoft registration stuff, and you might be better off going thru channels at microsoft to legally move the license after copying all your data.
The VM I'm using is VirtualBox. There should be no legal need to move the license since it's the same physical hardware.
-- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
Ken, VMWare can run Windows from a physical disk inside a VM (i.e. boot an existing Windows installation in a VM) but there are some hurdles to cross; the main one is getting Win to select the correct hal.dll from the Windows boot manager, since it is almost guaranteed to be different between the physical hardware and the vm "hardware". VMWare have a document describing how to do set it up to look at a physical rather than a virtual disk. You should also google "windows multiple hal.dll" Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the problems of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.