I have a computer with a bad system board. Can I pull the hard drive out and make a v2i Ghost image on another computer of the hard drive's C drive and THEN convert it to a VMWare virtual machine using the VMWare Converter, so I can get it back in operation until a new computer is obtained and set up?
OR does that image have to be made on the original hardware to make that work?I want to run this virtual machine on another computer for a few days to avoid downtime while the new computer is obtained and configured.The original computer's hard drive has a single Windows Vista 32-bit Home Premium partition. If you can obtain an image using Symantec Product or Acronis, you can use VMware Converter to Convert the image to a virtual machine.@paulsolov fellow EE Expert has suggests the following method:-'If all else fails do the following as it has helped me over a hundred times when converter fails1.
Download trial copy of Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery2. Install and take an image of the server3. Use VMware Converter to convert image (it knows it natively) to a VM'Download VMware vCenter Converter hereVMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.x DocumentationVMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 User GuideThe following guides may help if you have issues read fellow Expert Bestway's article.Best Practice Video Guide here. You're is a bit different scenario. What you will need to do is make an image on a different system using the Boot Recovery Disk, it will create a V2i file.
The only way to have an SV2I file is to have the OS up and running. If you can do that on a different system you should be ok.If not then you can make a V2I file using bear metal imaging (you'll need a temp license for this). You would then restore the OS onto a physical system, take an image and create Sv2i then migrate to a VM.Another option is to use Symantec's converter (System recovery server/client/ghost). Then mount as a vmware workstation VM.But before we get ahead of ouselves most home premeium editions are based on OEM licensing so the underlying hardware may need to be the same otherwise it will not boot to a different physical or virtual.
I know I can convert a Symantec/Norton/Acronis image to a virtual machine using the VMWare Converter. The question is 'Will that image work IF it was created from the hard drive without being in the original computer?In the past I have created virtual machines this way, but I always created the image file on the original computer first. I have NEVER created a virtual machine from an image that was created from the original hard drive in a different computer, because the original computer's hardware become defective.Can that be done or no? I do appreciate the prompt responses and ideas. Unfortunately, I had one night to decide since the computer in question had to be restored the following day, and most of the answers I got were a little too deep to implement in that short amount of time. I know from experience that anytime I mess around with virtual machine solutions, I end up spending ten times the amount of time I wanted and I never usually get the results I desired.Based upon the responses, I guess the answer to the question was 'yes', although nobody came right out and said that.
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It seems to me that I needed a backup of the system before hardware starting failing, or I needed to purchase special software, which I didn't get a chance to assure myself would work if I made the purchase. YES.we don't have the computers, but we keep the hard disks! We've got copies of Windows 3.1 running in Virtual machines that were taking from IBM PS/2s, with SCSI disks.The software we use to make images is not hardware dependant, we boot it from a CDROM, running Ghost.