Paragon Virtualization Manager 9.5 - GAOTD

[whitedragon551]

Easily migrate a Windows-based computer to a virtual environment (P2V) and vice versa (V2P).

Work with virtual disks from one easy-to-use interface of Virtualization Manager, without starting a virtual machine: migrate from one virtual environment to another (V2V), exchange data between your physical environment and the virtual one, perform any partitioning operations and more.

Recover the OS startup ability after a system migration to a different hardware or unsuccessful virtualization by a 3rd party tool.
Virtualization Manager 9.5 Personal allows you to:

* Migrate a Windows-based computer to a virtual environment (P2V)
* Migrate from a virtual environment to physical (V2P)
* Virtualize system from its backup image (P2V)
* Migrate from one virtual environment to another (V2V)
* Recover the OS startup ability after system migration to a different hardware or unsuccessful virtualization by a 3rd party tool (P2P and P2V Adjust)
* Clone a partition or an entire hard disk
* Exchange data between your physical environment and the virtual one, or between a virtual disk and its snapshots
* Accomplish virtual drive partitioning (create, format, delete, move, resize etc.)

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/para...+of+the+Day%29

[chinook9]

Anyone know if this thing works well?

[Kees1958]

Originally Posted by chinook9

Anyone know if this thing works well?

Yes as long as you combine it with Visualisation Software like VM or Virtual Box

[whitedragon551]

Kees how exactly does this work. I use VMWare Workstation and its got snap shot capabilities.

[chinook9]

Originally Posted by Kees1958

Yes as long as you combine it with Visualisation Software like VM or Virtual Box

This comes at a good time for me. I have a brand new, clean validated XP install that I would like to copy and use as a master for experimentation.

I presently use VMWare but I plan on trying VirtualBox also.

[chinook9]

I went ahead and installed this on a virtual box to check it out and the anti-virus on the box neutralized what it said was adware in :

C:/Program Files/Paragon Software/Virtualization Manager 9.5/program/infscan.exe

I could not upload the adware Virustotal because I could not find where Panda had quarantined it. I did find the Panda quarantine folder but the one file that was in there was just identified by a number.

I'd like to hear if anyone else has the same result.

Edit: Was finally able to upload this to VirusTotal and Panda was the only one that identified it as Adware. I'm not going to worry about it.

[whitedragon551]

I still have no clue what this does.

[Pedro]

It makes a VM out of your real installation, actual computer installation, aka real thing .
Like Disk2vhd i guess:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../ee656415.aspx

You still need Virtualbox or VMWare, or whatever is supported to run the VM.

[whitedragon551]

So its kind of like a Sandbox, but for the entire operating system.

[Pedro]

I've edited the post, see if it's clearer.

Imagine you take an image of you HD (Shadow Protect / Acronis / Image for Windows etc.). That image is a file.
Then you could convert it to a VM format. Then you take this VM file and open it in VMWare. That's what this is about.

[Rasheed187]

Hi,

I have a question, seems like a cool tool, but when you make a clone of your "real OS", it will not actually copy all of the data on your HDD (audio, video etc.), right?