If we want to convert a Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, we need first to change the physical hard drive to a virtual one using a free utility called Disk2vhd. Then, since ...

I have a laptop with dual drives. The mainboard has failed, and I want to make a virtual image from the drives to run in VMWare (Fusion, technically). VMWare converter wants an operational system to ...

Last week Microsoft released Disk2VHD, a utility produced by its Sysinternals acquisition to convert a physical Windows hard disk into a Virtual PC disk image. While handy, Microsoft is treading ...

If you remove the disk of a physical system and hook it up to another running computer via USB or something, is there anyway to somehow convert the disk into a VM? Without actually booting it up or ...

VMware recently released build 44840 of their free virtual machine conversion software. VMware Converter provides an easy-to-use, scalable solution for migrations of machines, both physical to virtual ...

VMware's vSphere 4.0 virtualization platform is out and available, but the company is still playing catch-up with vSphere support for its other portfolio products. When VMware announced the launch and ...

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