P2V is the process of converting a physical machine to a virtual machine.
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Creating a virtual machine in VirtualBox from a physical one
Is there any way to create a virtual machine that you can use in VirtualBox from a physical installation that you have? For instance, if I have Windows XP installed on a physical computer and want to ...
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Can I safely reduce the number of processors on a VM?
I have a number of Virtual Machines that were created from physical servers. Some of these have (in my opinion) an inappropriate number of processors - for example, we have a web application, ...
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SCVMM P2V conversion slow
I am trying to run some P2V conversions using SCVMM 2012 Release Candidate. The source machines are Windows Server 2008 SP2 hosts in a local network. The destination is a Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1. ...
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VMWare Converter - Remote Linux Install P2V
I am trying to get what I thought was an easy process working.
Here is my situation. I have a remote linux server (running Debian) that I would like to turn into a VM so that I can do testing on it ...
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VMWARE V2V migration without shared storage
I would like to do the following:
Take Physical box running w2k8r2 and Sql2008R2 and do a P2V on it to a 4.1 Enterprise licensed cluster. --no worries here, I can do that part--
Take the existing ...