Can I create VX Box image from running computer?

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Hi. Can I create a VX Box image from a running XP computer? Or is the only way to do that with VM Ware?

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You can find official utilities from your virt app OEM and 3rd party apps that’ll convert an existing install on hardware to your virtualization of choice.

The general class of apps you want is called P2V.
Do a search using that term and your virtualization technology to return results.

TSU

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I do rememeber I convert one opensuse old machine in to a virtual once… so I guess you can do the same with windows, you can do a dd of the windows drive and then save it to a file.

dd if=/dev/sda | ssh vmhost "dd of=/new/destination_dd"

you will have a raw disk then you can convert it…

convertfromraw            stdin <outputfile> <bytes>
                            --format VDI|VMDK|VHD]
                            --variant Standard,Fixed,Split2G,Stream,ESX]
                            --uuid <uuid>]

or maybe create it directly…

VBoxManage convertfromraw /dev/sda destination_dd.vdi --format VDI

found this maybe will help: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=61111

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On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 02:16:07 +0000, robertsmits wrote:

> Hi. Can I create a VX Box image from a running XP computer? Or is the
> only way to do that with VM Ware?

Sure - in fact, as I recall, the VMware Converter (which IIRC is free to
download/use) can create OVFs that can be imported directly into
VirtualBox. You’ll need to install the VBox tools manually, but that
should do the trick, as I recall.

Jim

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