Can I make an image of current windows install, then install it in VM?

[IamDavid]

Love the new Ubuntu version and would like to quit windows all together on main box.. Is it possible?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: IamDavid
Love the new Ubuntu version and would like to quit windows all together on main box.. Is it possible?

Making your existingng windows box into a machine, sure. Playable CS4 after, probably not...

 

[IamDavid]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: IamDavid
Love the new Ubuntu version and would like to quit windows all together on main box.. Is it possible?

Making your existingng windows box into a machine, sure. Playable CS4 after, probably not...

That sux. Whats the reason? I thought CS3 was usable in some cases using wine and VM's..

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: IamDavid

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: IamDavid
Love the new Ubuntu version and would like to quit windows all together on main box.. Is it possible?

Making your existingng windows box into a machine, sure. Playable CS4 after, probably not...

That sux. Whats the reason? I thought CS3 was usable in some cases using wine and VM's..

Wine would let it run natively, most vm's just dont have the graphics performance for games yet...

 

[IamDavid]

Sorry, not talking about the game. lol Creative Suite 4.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: IamDavid
Sorry, not talking about the game. lol Creative Suite 4.

Ooops!!! In that case, yes that should run fine in a VM.... My bad....

 

[IamDavid]

Perfect, thanks! Any suggestions before doing it?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: IamDavid
Perfect, thanks! Any suggestions before doing it?

Easiest is taking an image backup of the machine (so you can restore it if you have problems or use it to build the vm). Then restore the image to the vm. You might need to install windows ontop (upgrade install within the vm) but all of your apps/settings will be saved.

 

[IamDavid]

Thanks! Everything went great.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: IamDavid
Thanks! Everything went great.

Just curious...

Which VM software did you use?

I'm using Sun VirtualBox via 'Jaunty'.

I've got openSUSE, FreeBSD, and Win2K Pro running in VM -- thinking about installing IBM OS/2 next...

 

[IamDavid]

I'm also running VirtualBox . Very impressed so far with speed and stability. I know have my old Vista install running and a fresh windows 7.