How to convert a physical PC into a Virtual Machine 

Excellent refresher course. Thanks so much for putting that out there!

Thanks for watching folks!

Quick and to the point. Great tutorial

i love u dude,i kept trying to make a image system file and upload it to a virtual machine trying to system image restore from the troubleshooting windows and kept getting a lot of errors...didnt know things were actually this easy,u saved my ass

what an excellent tutorial. thanks a lot Jake, have a great day.

Very nice video Jake! Thanks a bunch!

Thank you for this video, good one and very simple.

Many thanks for an awesome tutorial, Sir.

Awesome video Jake!

great information, thanks for making the video!

Great tutorial! nice and quick

Excellent video! Many thanks!

Many thanks for video, liked and subscribed.

thank you so much, great video, worth watching

I like the video! Great work.

Wow! Easy as pie! Thanks!

Thank you for this excellent tutorial

Good tutorial. Thank you Greatly

You are the man, I wanted to convert my desktop for Proxmox server

Excellent. I'll try it.

Thank you very much 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Hi, Thank you so much for this video, it was almost exactly what i was looking for. However, I just have one more question, happens to the virtual disk and the corresponding virtual machine if I have 2 user accounts on my system?

Simple AZ guide It does work!!!🎉🎉🎉

I don't have external switch in network wt it could be ? thanks

Thanks your video! :⁠-⁠)

Good Video - clear and concise. This is the first viable answer to 'how to move to an old PC to new hardware without a reinstall' that I have found. So a big thanks for the video. Just one question, what factors go into the choice between Gen 1 and Gen 2 options?

I subscribed!

Hi, I have rare business program on older XP laptop and i want transfer it and use it on newer laptop with windows 7 OS installed. I lost installation setup CD of that business program, so how can i transfer and use that program from older to new laptop?

Thanks alot ❤

Excellent

Exactly what i needed to install linux as my main OS

thanks man

Cool, I've got a windows 98 Pentium 3 machine with a voodoo 3 graphics agp card. Even thou this vid is a few years old, I hope it still works

brilliant...

bf1 ... a man of culture:D

GREAT !! Thanks !! Just one question .... Will the Virtual Machine you just made, also run in Virual Box in Linux ??

I want to dual boot linux and windows. But I want to be able to edit and view windows from Linux and any change I make stays there when I boot into windows and it's not virtual change. Anyway to do something like this? I know I can simply write to the Windows partition directly but I prefer a GUI Windows

FYI I wouldn't recommend saving the vhd file to the same volume your creating a copy of

Just curious if the same option is available for a Mac? I've been trying to experiment with getting a Mac VM on Oracle but been unsuccessful. Of course I'd only want this to be able to learn troubleshooting for Mac devices. Just been curious on this.

Thx!

Hi Jake, can you use this in a domain environment on a server or computer joined to the domain?

thank you

i came acros your vid, but what i am wondering to know is: if i would be virtualizing my physical windows 10 install to virtual.. and use it in VM and enable insider in VM with that same windows install does it override my windows updates or what ever settings in my physical install which has insider disabled?

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Hi thanks for this very helpful. I have only 1 Q. can 2003 server can migrate to hyper-v?

Can it be virtualized an external USB SSD attached drive?

Seems like it might be limited to less than 200GB. found this in the read me type file: ."Using Disk2vhd The Disk2vhd user interface lists the volumes present on the system. It will create one VHD for each disk on which selected volumes reside. It preserves the partitioning information of the disk, but only copies the data contents for volumes on the disk that are selected. This enables you to capture just system volumes and exclude data volumes, for example. Note: Virtual PC supports a maximum virtual disk size of 127GB. If you create a VHD from a larger disk, even if you only include data from a smaller volume, it will not be accessible from a Virtual PC VM. In addition Virtual PC doesn't support the Multiprocessor Specification, which means that it won't be able to boot VHD's from multiprocessor Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems. "

Jake, What OS do we need to run Hyper-v Manager? Will Windows 10 Pro do? Does it have hypervisor feature? Great video. Thank you Asad

Thank you for posting this instructional video. Appreciate how to the point you are NO 3 minute intro with music and stupid effects.

I’m pretty new to VMs and i’d like to convert my native Win10 pc into one that runs what i currently have as a VM with Linux as my native OS. What would be an effective way of doing this? Would i need to throw the virtual drive onto an external one like a usb stick first, wipe my pc clean with a new Linux install and VM ware then import it back in? Or would the process be much simpler than that?

I have a gaming pc and a notebook for my brother, I can copy my gaming pc and put it in virtualbox and use it from the notebook? So my brother can use my gaming pc on it’s notebook

great

Is there a way to convert drives without a drive letter to a VHD. I'm attempting to make an image of an AndroidTV installation. Initial problem: Loaded the installation ISO into VirtualBox but some of the menu options were outside of the display boundaries. First solution: Install to a physical hard drive then convert that to a VHD. Current problem: Disk2VHD doesn't see the drive with AndroidTV on it.

is there any limit storage size can convert? as my physicals PC got size 15TB in size?

this work with same pc but if you create virtual machine and transfer to other place like in server hyper v it's not work i try so many times. if there is any way then please make video and share with us

Russinovich is a master.

But what would be the method of copying with a good known harddrive to be cloned into a Virtual Machine?

Can you do more videos on the school server room?

Will Active Directory policies still apply? Example: if I disable a user will they still be able to log into this machine?

yo what does it mean this //? volumes, do i have to checkmark that too? IT's like virtual parts of C? what happens if i don't check it?

How do I get hyper v manager

Nifty. If I were to do this say from an Intel box to an AMD box, would there be problems with the AMD drivers, etc.? Or would I just need to update/install the AMD drivers on the host system onto the now virtualised system?

i would like know when we install vmware workstation 8 then how to use it plz reply immediate ly

Well pretty much worthless as a VM ... won't let me activate ... but I do like having the snapshot of my system to help recovery ... and a way to archive/backup files that can be mounted ...

How about in Windows 7 platform, can it do like this

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Are there any limits to this? Will it do everything the original physical pc can do?

Does anyone know how to do this without having to activate again

How to make physical to virtual in centos7 machine

I testing to import into VMware fusion

can I usa the virtual machine on any pcs?

Is there a way to convert a physical MAC operating system to a VM file for use on VMWARE Workstation?

I hope you got back to Lynda... Thanks for the video.

will it affect license of software if I run on a different VM

I tried to use this tool but I always get getting error unable to open disk 0

is this safe to do without backing up?

Does it have to be vhdx cuz I just put vdh

Will it work for a Windows 95 machine?

it says there is not enough space on target volume can someone help

does this copy the data or move the data permanently?

will it speed up your pc?

Hi Jake....Great tutorial. I wanna install the vhd..but my hard disk space is only 96.6GB. VHD showed the following VOLUME WINRE SIZE:650MB FREE: 357.59MB SPACE REQUIRED: 296.07MB C:\ WINDOWS SIZE: 443.65 GB FREE: 96.56GB SPACE REQUIRED: 335.95GB D:\ RECOVERY SIZE: 21.09GB FREE:2.36GB SPACE REQUIRED: 18.82 GB. Do i go ahead to install, even when the space on my hard disk is only 96.56 GB and the VHD requires 335.95 GB ???????

i followed the steps on the video but windows won't boot up. all i see is a black screen.

It says there's not enough space on target volume

isn't the VM using the same resources as the host machine? So if the host machine dies, the VM dies?

How do you do this on Linux?

It's limited to a 126gb drive.

hey Jake what's with the lack of school server videos??

Will this method work on VirtualBox?

if i make changes in the vm does it change the real windows too?

Mine it keeps on crushing so how do i fix that, anyone?

Is it possible to make a copy of the physical pc to another PC without any problems?

So I get 2 separate disk and VM wont boot.

If i download a virus on the hyper-v will it affect my main pc?!

This is the coolest blasphemy I have ever seen

where is hyper-v manager?

How Do you login.? will the Same User id and password will work which used in Physical Server.?

dude your computer looks like datacenter. Why you need so much storage?

Error = Cannot Open Disk 0

I made vhd from my 1TB c:/ to external TB hdd. It took about 24 h. GOD, I forget to add system disk 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣