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P2V is the process of converting a physical machine to a virtual machine.

P2V is the process of converting a physical machine to a virtual machine.

Most virtualization solutions provide tools for performing the conversion. The tool will capture an image of the physical machine's hard drive(s) in a format suitable for use by the hypervisor.

After conversion, it may be necessary to perform additional steps, such as installing paravirtualized drivers for use with the destination hypervisor.

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Creating a virtual machine in VirtualBox from a physical one

Is there any way to create a virtual machine that you can use in VirtualBox from a physical installation that you have? For instance, if I have Windows XP installed on a physical computer and want to have a virtual version of that machine on a…
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Best way to clone a live linux system

Does anybody know of a way to clone a live linux system? I have a live installation running a production site. Problem is, I'm needing to clone it (without bring it down), and then move it over (restore) to a virtual machine. I'm basically…
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How to convert a Win2003 server to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine?

What is the easiest way to convert a Win2003 server to a Hyper-V Virtual machine? Ideally, I'd like to use a backup tool to create an image across the network. What is the best way to do this?
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vSphere P2V Conversion without converting an iSCSI disk

I have a physical Windows 2008 R2 server that connects via iSCSI, over ethernet, to a SAN. I need to convert the server to virtual, but I don't want to convert the iSCSI volume to VMDK, because I don't have the storage space required. Rather, I'd…
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How to perform a P2V conversion of a Windows Server 2008 R2 EFI system?

As discussed elsewhere, Windows Server 2008/R2 will automatically use the EFI boot loader when installed on EFI systems, and will also automatically use the GPT partitioning scheme on such systems. And you can't do anything at all about this (other…
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P2V - Cold Clone ISO

I need to cold clone a physical box in a VMWare environment. What are people using for this these days? My preference is for VMWare's vConverter ISO, but it appears that this was discontinued. It's no longer available for download on their site…
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Test P2V with SCVMM

I am trying to convert a physical server 2003 server to a virtual machine. I am using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (Workgroup Edition) on a Microsoft Server 2008 R2 Data center edition hyper-v server. Is it possible to do a test…
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Migrating physical machine to KVM

I have a fairly old debian machine that I need to migrate to KVM-Qemu. What I started is to make a tarball of the root filesystem: tar -cpf rootfs.tar --exclude='dev/*' --exclude='proc/*' --exclude='sys/*' --exclude='home/*' / scp tar file to a…
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What is the best way to move 20+ databases to a new database server? SQL 2005

Current database server: SQL Server 2005 - Windows Server 2003 New destination database server: SQL Server 2005 - Windows Server 2003 Enterprise - VM Ware image Current database server has 20+ databases on it, some application databases...others…
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How to migrate a physical system to a KVM virtual server with only network access?

I have an obsolete linux app-server running which I would like to migrate to a KVM virtual server with greater specifications. I do not have physical access to the machine itself or its harddisks. I only have access to the server across the…
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Physical to Virtual on same hardware?

I'd like to convert a physical machine to a virtual. Its an SBS2008 server. The catch is I have just the one server hardware to use. Is it possible to create VHDs for the system drive as well as a volume on the RAID drive saving the images to a…
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Windows 7 no longer genuine after P2V migration

A standard procedure when someone receives a computer upgrade for our company is to do a P2V copy of their old one, in case we miss something important on their new machine. This has worked flawlessly for years, but the most recent P2V conversion…
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How to create Virtual Machine from live system?

I have a live system that I need to reinstall but also want to have a backup in a form of a virtual machine that will allow me to turn it on and have a look at some old files/configuration. What are the tools to achieve this?
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P2V Server 2008R2 with vmware converter 4.3.0 No source volumes

I'm trying to P2V a Windows Server 2008R2 to vmware vsphere 4.1 using Vmware vCenter Converter standalone 4.3. Source Box Windows Server 2008R2 24GB ram Dual Quad-Cores 1 Raid 5 drive 680 GB 3 GB "Recovery" partition 40 GB OS partition 637 GB…
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Can I safely reduce the number of processors on a VM?

I have a number of Virtual Machines that were created from physical servers. Some of these have (in my opinion) an inappropriate number of processors - for example, we have a web application, accessed internally only, running on a VM with 4…
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