On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 18:10 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
John Andersen pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Ken Schneider <suse-list3@bout-tyme.net> 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.
If your system came pre-installed then it is quite likely your key hasn't been used anyhow. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org