Convert Physical Windows Systems Into Virtual Machines To Be Run On A Linux Desktop

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Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com>
Last edited 02/13/2007

This article shows how you can convert a physical Windows system (XP, 2003, 2000, NT4 SP4+) into a VMware virtual machine with the free VMware Converter Starter. The resulting virtual machine can be run in the free VMware Player and VMware Server, and also in VMware Workstation and other VMware products. Vmware Converter comes in handy if you want to switch to a Linux desktop, but feel the need to run your old Windows desktop from time to time. By converting your Windows desktop into a virtual machine, you can run it under VMware Server/Player, etc. on your Linux desktop.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!" }-http://www.howtoforge.com/vmware_converter_windows_linux

http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
What he showed was a demonstration of a completely fresh XP install, so it is rather not demonstrating the real thing.
But really no different than building your own machine. What more, building your own machine - again - is an important educational step. You cut on the old, built-up errors over time, change things that you might wish had never been done, etc.
Mrk