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On Thursday, March 24, 2011, compdoc wrote: > If you want to go virtual, it's easy enough to do with the > imaging programs clonezilla or Acronis. > > First, it's probably a good idea to create a backup image with > clonezilla or Acronis so you can put it back the way it was if > it all goes wrong. > > Then, in XP open the Add/Remove Programs control panel and > remove all your drivers: video card, sound card, chipset, etc. > If you're familiar with Sysprep, run this next and shut down. > > Now, boot with your image program and create the backup again > of this stripped down, sysprepped XP. > > Then create your VM and its virtual drive, and restore the > stripped down image to the virtual drive. > > It might work fine without using Sysprep since XP should have > drivers for the virtual hardware in the VM. Just don't try to > use 'virtio' hardware until the VM is up and running. I like this! I'm a long time user of Acronis so I'm very familiar with its workings. It is something you have to buy, though there's a version available on the Seagate website that's a little stripped down but available for free download - I have no idea whether the feature set remaining in this version is sufficient to do the above task, but it would cost you nothing to find out. I think they call it Seagate Tools... VMWare has a free tool you can download that will create a virtual hard drive of any physical drive, and that's the one I've used. The page I linked to is one of several I found which describes a way to take a VMWare created virtual drive and convert it for use by VirtualBox, but I haven't ever done that myself - this technique compdoc describes above looks like it could be even simpler... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA |
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