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virtual environment by VMware converter, this post shows you how to do a VirtualBox P2V with Microsoft utility disk2vhd. This method gave few errors and issues after
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the conversion but I managed solve it and boot the virtual machine disk2vhd system partition successfully. Let’s see how to solve these possible errors and do VirtualBox P2V with Microsofts's disk2vhd successfully. Unfortunately disk2vhd alternative this method works on Windows Operating Systems only since disk2vhd is from Microsoft.This utility converts the physical hard disk partitions to VHD (Microsoft Virtual Disk) format which can be http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17265 used on Oracle VirtualBox. Migrating a working physical Windows computer to VirtualBox platform is very easy by this way. Once it has been converted to VHD format, it can be used with VirtualBox which runs on any OS like Linux or Mac OS X.In this example, I converted my physical computer which is having two Operating Systems (Windows http://www.sysprobs.com/virtualbox-p2v-disk2vhd-errors-fix 7 and Windows XP), but Windows 7 to VirtualBox P2V.Steps for VirtualBox P2V with disk2vhd and Fix Errors.1) Download the latest version of disk2vhd (2.01 version)2) Installation is not required, run the program directly.3) It will pick up the physical hard disk partitions from host OS.Important Note: My mistakeBefore go to next step, let's understand something clearly!If you want to convert your entire physical disk (for example 500GB with 5 partition) to VHD, then select the all partitions and start the conversion. This will not cause any issues while attaching the VHD to VirtualBox or Virtual PC, except space issue because the converted VHD file will take the same size as 500GB.But, if you want to P2V only specific Operating System and partitions from physical computer, then you must do it properly to avoid problems later.In this example, I like to convert my working Windows 7 host to VirtualBox. So, I must convert the System and boot partitions which are mostly different.Here is my working Windows 7 physical computer.Initially I have converted only Wi
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Register RSS FREE: Disk2vhd - A simple P2V tool that creates VHDs for Hyper-V and Virtual PCHome Blog FREE: Disk2vhd - A simple P2V tool that creates VHDs for Hyper-V and Virtual PC4sysops - The online community for SysAdmins and DevOps Michael Pietroforte Tue, Oct 13 2009Tue, Oct 13 2009 sysinternals 9 Last week, you couldn't hardly find an IT-related blog that didn't announce this new free Sysinternals tool. Disk2vhd copies the contents of a physical disk to a virtual disk in Microsoft's VHD format. Since Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability, you can use the tool while the physical machine is online. In theory, it is possible to convert a physical system drive to a VHD.AboutLatest PostsMichael PietroforteMichael Pietroforte is the founder and editor of 4sysops. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 30 years of experience in IT management and system administration. Latest posts by Michael Pietroforte (see all) Set Windows 10 Ethernet connection to metered with PowerShell - Tue, Sep 27 2016 Disable updates in Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update) using Group Policy - Wed, Sep 21 2016 Fundamentals of Azure, Second Edition - Get your head in the cloud - Tue, Sep 13 2016 The size of the standalone tool is only 670KB, so you shouldn't expect wonders. I tried Disk2vhd on a Windows 7 system. I encountered my first problem with it when I had to decide which partition to convert. My boot and my system partition are separated. I selected them both and Disk2vhd packed them in one VHD file without complaining. The result was that neither Virtual PC 2007 SP1 nor the successor Windows Virtual PC was able to recognize the VHD. I didn't try it with Hyper-V, but, I guess, the result would have been the same. Perhaps, it would have worked If I ran the tool twice to create two separate VHD files. But I didn't explore this path because I have a 64-bit system and Virtual PC doesn't support 64-bit guests.I then tried something different for which the tool was not really made for. I used it within a VMware Workstation virtual machine. Disk2vhd was indeed able to create a VHD from the VMDK disk. I could even write the VHD file to a shared drive on the host system. This probably means that the utility also supports network shares as destinations. Not every P2V tool has this feature. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to boot with this VHD in Virtual PC 2007 SP1 and Windows Virtual PC. The virtual machine always hung. I then tried to boot in Safe Mode. Virtual PC was load