Trying to Convert a Windows XP disk to VirtualBox

[Mark Phillips]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> im not fully familiar with P2V for virtualbox, however the only time i
> did a P2V using the VMware converter it required a 3rd machine to do
> the work. and image directly to the server.
>
> however what you can do, and maybe a good idea anyhow is use something
> like clonezilla to make an image of that partition and then restore it
> into the virtual machine and run a repair install?
>

What is a repair install? I don't have the Windows disks because it cam
pre-installed on the machine. Any web pages that talk about this process?

Mark

>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Mark Phillips
> <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> > I have a dual boot machine with two physical drives - Windows XP Pro and
> > Debian testing. I need to replace the Windows drive with another drive to
> > add more space to the Debian drive. Instead of just chucking the Windows
> > drive drive (only 40GB and the machine only has space for two hard
> drives),
> > I thought I would virtualize it and run it in virtualbox on the Debian
> > machine. I am having no success in (1) finding a lot of information on
> how
> > to do this and (2) actually accomplishing the task.
> >
> > I have tried using vmware vcenter converter 4.0.1. I have the client
> running
> > on one Linux machine (hammerhead), the Windows source on another
> (basenji),
> > and the destination folder is a windows share on a third machine (goofy).
> > After struggling to get it to run, it dies within a minute with an error:
> >
> > FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error
> code:
> > 2147754758 (0x80042306).
> >
> > It is able to find the client and source folder with no issues. Googling
> the
> > error code and message did not give me any good results. I had one
> warning
> > on the config setup screen - "Unable to locate the required Sysprep
> files.
> > Please upload them under
> /var/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/sysprep/xp
> > on the Converter server machine." I found the .cab on the Microsoft site
> and
> > put it in the required location, but I still get that warning.
> >
> > My questions -
> >
> > 1. Anyone know how to get VMware converter to work? My assumption, after
> > some reading, is that virtualbox will be able to import the output from
> > vmware converter.
> >
> > 2. Other suggestions for recipes to virtualize a physical Windows XP
> drive?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > P.S. The other reason I want to make this work, is that I have a new
> laptop
> > with Windows 7. I planto install Debian and virtualize the Windows 7
> > partition and get rid of the dual boot. This excercise with the Windows
> XP
> > drive is my test bed to see how to make it work. I am not sure if there
> are
> > any extra gotchas to virtualizing Windows 7.
> >
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