Problem: I have a laptop that boots Windows 2008 R2 and is my based SP2010 dev machine. I need the machine to be available on a PC will additional memory using virtualisation.
Initial Hypothesis: I could take an Acronis image of the laptop and then duel boot the the PC but it's far easier to do a P2V (Physical to Virtual) conversion and run the new image using VMWare workstation.
Resolution:
Install VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone client. Open the VMWare converter application.
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Select "Convert Machine"
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Follow the steps as shown below:
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Finish the wizard and once the task is complete you will see the screen as shown below:
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Initial Hypothesis: I could take an Acronis image of the laptop and then duel boot the the PC but it's far easier to do a P2V (Physical to Virtual) conversion and run the new image using VMWare workstation.
Resolution:
Install VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone client. Open the VMWare converter application.
Open VMWare Workstation (V7.1 is the version I used)
Open the virtual disk created by the P2V process and you will now have you VM running inside VMWare (vmdk extension).
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