It will list the drive size, as well as the used space. The Source Data window allows you to specify which drives to include in the conversion.
Select “This local machine” as the Source Login, click nextĥ. Select “Physical Computer” as the Source Type, click nextĤ. – You will now be walked through the converter wizard –ģ. Click the “Convert Machine” button located in the bottom half of the window. Click the “Continue in Starter Mode” to get to the main converter windowĢ. Installation of the VMware converter is pretty straightforward, just follow the dialog boxes to complete the install, I used the “Typical” installation option.ġ. The version used in this example is VMware Converter 3.0.3 Create a new VM in VirtualBox using the VM that was “converted”.įirst, you’ll need to download and install the VMware Converter tool onto the physical machine you want to virtualize (in this case it’s the Windows XP machine). Convert the physical machine to a VM using VMware ConverterĢ. I also used a portable USB hard drive formatted with a FAT32 filesystem as a destination for the VM conversion.ġ. The physical machine has two PCI cards: an ATI 9600XT graphics adapter and an SMC 10/100 NIC. The physical machine being P2V’d is an older PC with an AMD 3100+ CPU and 768MB RAM running Windows XP (non-OEM) w/SP3 (please be aware that you still need to adhere to Microsoft’s licensing policies). The host computer in this example is an Apple Macbook 2Ghz Core 2 Duo, with 2GB RAM, running Mac OS X 10.5.7 and VirtualBox 3.0.0.
However, none of these support as many platforms as VirtualBox – and it’s FREE! Of course, there are other host-based virtualization products that are available: VMware Server and Fusion, Xen, and Parallels to name a few. Go to for more information and downloads. VirtualBox is an open-source, freely available virtualization product that can run on a variety of different host operating systems: Windows XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Mac OS X (Intel only), several Linux distros, and Solaris 10 x86 to name a few.
VirtualBox is capable of using vmdk files, the format that VMware converter creates in it’s P2V process. However, it IS possible to convert it to a virtual machine using a free product (VMware Converter) and then use VirtualBox as the host-based virtualization platform. For those asking the question: “Is it possible to convert an existing physical Windows XP workstation using VirtualBox?” Well, the short answer is “No, you can’t convert it DIRECTLY with VirtualBox”.
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