Paragon Virtualization Manager 9.5 - GAOTD

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Anyone know if this thing works well?

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

I still have no clue what this does.

 

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/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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?