OSS P2V 4 free via G4U November 13, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : apple, virtualization, windows , trackbackThat title is bit of a mouthful… let me explain myself.
One of the big ideas in the world of virtualization is P2V or Physical-to-Virtual. One of the barriers to taking advantage of virtualization technology in your data-centre is the time spent setting up your new virtual machines, running under VMware Server or Xen or what-have-you, to mimic the physical machines they are replacing on one bigger, beefier (and hopefully more energy efficient) server. P2V technology aims to make it easy to migrate a complete physical server, with the OS and applications intact, to a virtual machine. The major players in the virtualization and backup space all have P2V solutions generally priced for the enterprise end of town.
Since Apple’s move to Intel architecture we have seen a few virtualization solutions for Mac OS X pop up; first from Parallels and most recently from VMware. This has made it easier for people to switch from Windows to Mac OS X knowing that they have a way to keep working with applications that do not have an OS X equivalent. At the same time though, I expect that many may resist simply because of the time needed to switch all applications from a Windows laptop to an Apple MacBook. So I got to wondering, what if there was a cheap way to go P2V from a laptop running XP to a Parallels Desktop XP virtual machine? Read on to find out how.
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