Ritesh Sinha wrote: > If you MUST migrate a physical machine to a VM, the way to do it (an > annoying way) is to first use the VMWare P2V tool to convert it to a > VM. Then use a tool to convert VMDK to virtualbox native disk format > (google around for the tool name). >
Does it work properly. AFAIK when you install, the configurations are made for the present hardware configuration. How are they managed in the VM? > Not recommended unless you _really_ need to. As of now VirtualBox > doesn't provide a direct Physical to Virtual Converter (P2V). Also, > performance isn't as great as VMware server/VMware ESX (unscientific > personal tests, YMMV). > A fresh installation is highly recommended, but it is not apt in some times,when you have done lots of config tweaks in the current system. Probably a tool which backups the configuration can be more helpful in this case. N.B: Can you please bottom post. A kind and sincere request. I don't mean to offend (following the mailing lists rules) BTW You reply was highly informative. -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
