P2V is the process of converting a physical machine to a virtual machine.
P2V is the process of converting a physical machine to a virtual machine.
Most virtualization solutions provide tools for performing the conversion. The tool will capture an image of the physical machine's hard drive(s) in a format suitable for use by the hypervisor.
After conversion, it may be necessary to perform additional steps, such as installing paravirtualized drivers for use with the destination hypervisor.
- VMware: VMware VCenter Converter (Free)
- Hyper-V: System Center Virtual Machine Manager ($) or Disk2vhd (Free)
- Citrix XenServer: Built-in (Linux guests only); XenConvert (Windows guests only; $)
- KVM: virt-p2v (Linux guests only?; Free)
