[lug] virtualization first boot question

[Me]

VMware's P2V Assistant converts a physical machine, especially Windows PMs,  
to the VMware format of your choice. Works well, and easily.

Sent via David's Droid X.

-----Original message-----
From: Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"  
<lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Tue, Sep 21, 2010 05:37:59 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [lug] virtualization first boot question

So not having had to build any virtualized systems in a while...

Are any of them capable these days of taking a *working* regular system  
running a single OS natively on arbitrary hardware, and make an image out of  
that, dump the image onto another box, and fire it up cleanly (assuming the  
OS can handle the "hardware" changes itself at the next boot)?

Have two machines running different versions of Winderz here that *rarely*  
get used anymore, and would love to just turn them into virtuals on some  
other faster/more useful box... 

Linux box is of course, fine... Or something like ESXi... Bonus points if I  
could dump the image onto an external drive and boot it in Parallels on a  
Mac, after say converting formats a couple of times.

 (Maybe VMWare to Parallels or something like that.  I guess I could buy  
VMWare Fusion also... Well, anyway... Just dreaming of dumping some hardware  
here...)

--
Nate Duehr
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