Comments on: VirtualBox P2V Physical to Virtual in VirtualBox

By: Camilo Martin

Camilo Martin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:25:41 +0000

No way around a BSOD, you can’t boot that. You have to SysPrep it first, but it’s ok for me because I only need the data on the disk as VMDK anyway…

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:10:42 +0000

Awesome article!

Are there any Unix tools that I could use to convert an old SCO partition into a VMDK/VDI/VHD?

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:25:21 +0000

Thanks Josh,

Putting the HD on a SCSI controller is what ended up working for me as well.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:04:50 +0000

So, the thing that finally worked for me, was to put the HD on a SCSI controller in virtualbox…

I also had done some registry hacking, but this was what finally worked and caused windows not to 7b

By: rjm

rjm — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:39:10 +0000

Be aware that disk2vhd will not take an image from an OEM Windows install and let you run it on any other machine – at least this is what the disk2vhd site says. I didn’t try it, as this kind of silliness from MS doesn’t surprise me. The whole idea of virtualizing a machine is to run the virtual image from anywhere isn’t it?????

By: Tobi

Tobi — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:08:26 +0000

I have no success.

I need an 1:1 copy of my external IDE USB drive. This Systernal tool only converts the used blocks but that is for not enough. My case is sort of a forensic one.

Since I am no techi and do not know about Linux or DD raw images (I might have to learn) I tried Symantec’s Ghost 15 Sp1 (it can convert its own images / recovery points into VMDK and has a boot cd!) and Pragon’s Hard Drive Backup Tools that do the same and have a boot cd, too. Moreover Paragon can copy directly into SUN VirtualBox image container.

However, I can not boot those images into VirtualBox. Tried with and without IO. May be I try the IDE / Sata think since my HDD is years old.

Can you give me some other tips how to manage that? Boot from CD and find a way to get an 1:1 copy clone that loads in VirtualBox?

PS:
I noticed that the VMware Converter can also make use of Symantec Restore Points (but it did not load mine?!?!) and also Acronis TrueImage TIB files. Might be interesting.

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:42:38 +0000

Great article. Had to enable IO APIC when it failed to boot first. Now it wants me to activate windows? I see this on the web in my searches, but nobody here mentioned it. So, I was wondering if this is normal or if I did something wrong.

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