Disk2vhd and VirtualBox woes
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Converter standalone
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Arrrg...The big G is showing all downloads from vCenter and the same goes for the download page on Vmware's download site.
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@technobabble said:
Arrrg...The big G is showing all downloads from vCenter and the same goes for the download page on Vmware's download site.
Could you rephrase that? I'm not sure what you meant there.
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I Googled VMware Converter and can only find this: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0
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@technobabble said:
I Googled VMware Converter and can only find this: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0
That's the one!
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Thanks!
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WMware vCenter Converter won't work with .vhd. "The file you selected is not a supported source."
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@technobabble said:
WMware vCenter Converter won't work with .vhd. "The file you selected is not a supported source."
You need to P2V the machine while it's running.
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yeah...the Physical PC is dead.
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Well, that's unfortunate! Try spinning it up in Hyper-V.
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Yes, however I thought by having the vhd I would be able to visualize it.
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core2quad Q6600 doesn't allow Hyper-V in Windows 8 (missing slat)
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Surely you must have a server somewhere you could use?
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I guess I can spin up a W7 PC and see if I can run the vhd in Virtual PC
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If I did get a server up and running, would I be able to convert the vm from one type to another and get it off the server?
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If it boots in Hyper-V, you could then P2V it to your heart's content.
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@technobabble said:
If I did get a server up and running, would I be able to convert the vm from one type to another and get it off the server?
Yup. Once it is running it is easy.
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Putting pieces that I have read together and have come up with this:
Mount vhd and mark partition active (which it currently is not active), clicking yes for the pop up "Ensure that the partition you are about to make active includes valid system files. Otherwise the disk will not start. do you want to continue. I presume this will not effect the running of my W8.1.1 system.
Unmount vhd and attempt to start in VirtualBox.
Does this sound plausible?
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Previous Disk2VHD versions had "Fix up HAL for Virtual PC". Only vaguely heard it "cleans up stuff" by Aaron Margosis. Had not not used the tool without it. Weird the current versions don't have the checkbox.
Curious when the VHD was made, and how this turns out with VBox.
