Comments on: VirtualBox P2V Success

By: Roman

Roman — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:46:17 +0000

Thank you very much! You are great man!:)

By: Clint

Clint — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:56:39 +0000

DUDE! This was the best, perfectly explained, step by step, how to of some extraordinarily impressive Sh.iT. I printed it out cause it still works on VirtualBox 4.1

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P2V from Se7en to VirtualBox at TuM'Fatig — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:51:30 +0000

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By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:01:51 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, especially the Windows 7 info!

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Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:56:34 +0000

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By: Shajon

Shajon — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:27:53 +0000

Hi,
I am new virtual box user.I have encountered by a problem:
guest machine: windows Xp
host machine: win 7
I have made a vmdk using VMware-converter-4.0.1-161434 of my guest machine. I have created new profile in virtual box(VirtualBox-3.2.8-64453-Win) with this vmdk assigning sufficient memory. But when it is going to boot its giving following (green death )error:

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer
if this is first time you have seen this stop error screen, restart your computer…

check for virus on your computer . remove any newly installed hard drive and hard drive controller. check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. run chkdsk /f to check your hard drive corruption….

technical information…

Anyone can help please??

my current virtual box setting:
General
Name:finbd2virtual
OS Type:Windows XP

System
Base Memory:1024 MB
Processor(s):1
Boot Order:Hard Disk
VT-x/AMD-V:Enabled
Nested Paging:Enabled

Display
Video Memory:16 MB
3D Acceleration:Disabled
2D Video Acceleration:Disabled
Remote Display Server:Disabled

Storage
IDE Controller
IDE Primary Master:finbd2.vmdk (Normal, 48.87 GB)

Audio
Host Driver:Windows DirectSound
Controller:ICH AC97

Network
Adapter 1:PCnet-FAST III (NAT)

Serial Ports
Disabled
USB
Device Filters:0 (0 active)

Shared Folders
None

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:01:51 +0000

Hi Jason,

I’m new to the world of VM’s. I’ve been playing with virtual box for a bit and i’m keen to p2v a couple of our less critical servers. what sort of prep do you need to do on the server you want to virtualise before setting loose vm converter?

Thanks for sharing all your hard work with the rest of us.

By: Keith Bierman

Keith Bierman — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:06:55 +0000

I’ve got a brand new harddrive (removed from a new laptop) with win7 on it sitting in an external cradle. VirtualBox won’t let me boot from the real disk; and vmconverter only runs from the live system … do I have any alternative to booting into windows, installing the vmconverter on it, and following the directions here? Can’t I leverage the existing linuxx64 to execute or convert a physical drive?

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:46:22 +0000

Glad you got it working. Since this article was done with 2.x it’s probably a good idea to update it to more accurately describe the options as they now exist in 3.x.

By: ErikP

ErikP — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:27:22 +0000

A couple of clarifications: VirtualBox has an Import Appliance functionality. This is not what is needed here. Instead, go to File -> Virtual Media Manager, and click on Add. Then browse to the VMDK file. It will become the hard drive for the guest OS. Then create a new guest with however much CPU and RAM and devices that you want.

The other clarification is that on Vista and Windows 7 the “ACPI Uniprocessor PC” is called “ACPI x86-based PC” or “ACPI x64-based PC” instead. Also, you will not find this entry in the System Devices category. It is under the Computer category instead.

This worked perfectly for me virtualizing Vista 32-bit to a guest on top of Windows 7 64-bit. Thanks!

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Physical to Virtual in VirtualBox - VirtualBox P2V | — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:19:30 +0000

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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:43:09 +0000

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By: lüi

lüi — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:20:36 +0000

Excelente post, it helps a lot! I never thought that Vbox could read .vmdk!

By: dahuletam

dahuletam — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:36:35 +0000

Very enjoyed this! Well done!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:14:47 +0000

Q: What’s an

acceptable speed?

Is the destination storage local or remote?

By: MikeCamel

MikeCamel — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:47:37 +0000

I don’t have the Uniproc device, and am struggling to find a setting to change in order to make things work at an acceptable speed. Any thoughts?

-Mike.

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:22:47 +0000

This procedure works with VirtualBox v3.0.

Though, you need to remove the VMware Tools if they were installed prior to opening in VirtualBox.

Also, I had to remove the machine from my AD Domain and add it back before I could use any AD accounts.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:03:37 +0000

Yes it should.

By: T.Osinubi

T.Osinubi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:28:18 +0000

Would this method also work if the disk was NTFS?

By: Olivier

Olivier — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:42:29 +0000

Hello,

This works great.
finally my windows is inside my ubuntu, with good performances. I spent a lot of time to get this working, and your trick does it.

Thank you very much!

By: John Croson

John Croson — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:16:52 +0000

Awesome. Just migrated to VirtualBox on a freshly converted SuSE -> Ubuntu Jaunty and was having issues getting my XP host going, since I had so much trouble compiling the VMware modules.

Thanks!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:11:24 +0000

I chose to create a standalone VM using a VMDK that was split on 2GB boundaries. The segmented VMDK was only necessary as I was writing the conversion to a FAT formatted disk. As the ultimate goal was to get the machine into VirtualBox, I selected the Destination type to be “Other Virtual Machine”, and set the type of virtual machine to be a Workstation 6.x.

By: Tobu

Tobu — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:23:50 +0000

What kind of image did you build? Vmware-converter gives a great many choices of vmware products to target.