I've got a sector by sector partition image taken with Drive Snapshot of a physical machine I want to convert with Converter Standalone (to do P2V conversion, automatically fix windows drivers, etc)I've tried to create a empty VHD in win7,mounted, restore with drive snapshot to that temp drive, then unmounted and try to input that VHD to converter standalone buy it wasn't accepted.I guess i need a vmc file, as with just a VHD file it seems it's impossible.
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What would be the easiest way to convert to an image supported by converter standalone ?I don't care what format is as it's a temporary format to feed it to converter to do the conversion and get a working and bootable virtual machine.Preferably with free tools of course ( I don't want to by Norton Ghost for example )
Thanks, but I guess that's will not work.It's not enough to convert image to an identical vmware disk vmdk, beacuse I need to open it with converter to do its magic ( fix windows drivers, scsi drivers, reconfigure services, etc) prior to booting it with Vmware.And I guess can't feed a vmdk virtual disk to standalone converter to convert o reconfigure windows/drivers/services/etc. Right ?
Right. You can do both ways, but converter makes things easy. You could generate a VMX file manually, or download VMware Workstation and create a VM with this existing disk. After that, you will have the VMX that Converter needs.
Ok. I'll try that. I can of course generate a vmx file for the vmdk.But somehow I supposed that if I try to convert a vmx virtual computer (still identical to the physical one, not yet "fixed" regarding windows and scsi drivers etc, possibly giving BSOD and not yet bootable by vmware) converter with not do its "fixing magic" as it will asume it's a "good" virtual machine and not a physical image.Am I wrong with this ?
It's not enough to convert image to an identical vmware disk vmdk, beacuse I need to open it with converter to do its magic ( fix windows drivers, scsi drivers, reconfigure services, etc) prior to booting it with Vmware.And I guess can't feed a vmdk virtual disk to standalone converter to convert o reconfigure windows/drivers/services/etc. Right ?
I'm trying if possible to use converter and not manual restore on a clean virtual machine ( as it's a lot more work )And I've more success with converter that with manual conversions (problems with drivers, BSOD , etc )
StarWind V2V Converter / P2V Migrator is a free software for cloning and transforming VMs from one format to another, as well as converting physical machines into virtual ones. It is utilized when migration or Hypervisor Switch is required. Compared to the typical converters built into hypervisors, StarWind V2V Converter / P2V Migrator offers bi-directional conversion between all the major VM formats: VMDK, VHD/VHDX (Windows Repair Mode aware), QCOW2, and StarWind native IMG.
StarWind V2V Converter has numerous competitive gains over converters built into your standard hypervisors. First, it supports bi-directional VM conversion between various hypervisor vendor formats. To save time during migration and Hypervisor Switch, V2V Converter allows to convert VMs directly from one hypervisor server to another without creating an extra VM disk copy. On top of that, you can easily migrate your vital host VM images between different hypervisor servers without any data loss or corruption. Want to convert local files? V2V can do that, too.
Once the VMware converter has completed, disable all of the networks adapters on the physical server and shut down. Disabling the network adapters will avoid potential IP conflicts if you will start the physical server back into Windows after you have your new virtual server running.
Note the first is the VMWare image and the second is the VHD which is the output of the virtual machine converter. The VHD is what we will use when we build our new Hyper-V instance of Kali. This section takes three major steps, the first is building the initial files needed, allocating the memory, and copying over the data. It will take about an hour or two depending on your CPU specifications. 2ff7e9595c
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