Bugman1400 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Looking to virtualize my existing WinXP installation to an img file to use on UnRAID. What software do I use for that? Quote Link to comment
Shamalamadindong Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=converter After that this should be able to convert it to something usable in Unraid. (assuming VMware's thing doesn't have that function built in) https://www.starwindsoftware.com/converter Haven't actually ever tried this but it should work. Quote Link to comment
Bugman1400 Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 WinXP no likey.....W10 VM seems to be okay with it so far. Quote Link to comment
SpaceInvaderOne Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Looking to virtualize my existing WinXP installation to an img file to use on UnRAID. What software do I use for that? connect drive to server then run this command. check what id is assigned "sd?" qemu-img convert -O raw /dev/sd? /mnt/sharename/xpimage.img Quote Link to comment
coopooc Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 As you'll see in my related thread, there's a guide on the Unraid site specifically for this: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/UnRAID_6/VM_Management#Physical_to_Virtual_Machine_Conversion That helped me quite a bit. Quote Link to comment
Bugman1400 Posted October 30, 2016 Author Share Posted October 30, 2016 As you'll see in my related thread, there's a guide on the Unraid site specifically for this: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/UnRAID_6/VM_Management#Physical_to_Virtual_Machine_Conversion That helped me quite a bit. I thought I'd read a step-by-step somewhere but, with this huge library of info, I couldn't find it. Mucho gracias!! Quote Link to comment
Bugman1400 Posted October 31, 2016 Author Share Posted October 31, 2016 Actually, it doesn't appear that the tutorial is exactly what I am looking for. One part of the tutorial is for using a physical disk in a VM. The seems to require that you connect your physical disk to the UnRAID server. All I want to do is create an image of my existing WinXP PC and virtualize it to use in KVM without having the existing PC anymore. I plan to convert my existing PC from WinXP to Win7 but, want to be able to run a VM of my old WinXP with all my apps and files. Quote Link to comment
SpaceInvaderOne Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Actually, it doesn't appear that the tutorial is exactly what I am looking for. One part of the tutorial is for using a physical disk in a VM. The seems to require that you connect your physical disk to the UnRAID server. All I want to do is create an image of my existing WinXP PC and virtualize it to use in KVM without having the existing PC anymore. I plan to convert my existing PC from WinXP to Win7 but, want to be able to run a VM of my old WinXP with all my apps and files. You will need to connect your hard disk to the unRAID server in order to make an image of it. Once you have made the image you can remove it and put it back in the pc it came from Quote Link to comment
Bugman1400 Posted November 2, 2016 Author Share Posted November 2, 2016 To be clear, what section and steps do I follow in the link above? Quote Link to comment
SpaceInvaderOne Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 To be clear, what section and steps do I follow in the link above? Ok just follow the wiki guide steps 1 to 6 http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/UnRAID_6/VM_Management#Physical_to_Virtual_Machine_Conversion Quote Link to comment
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