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Virtualize my old Vista Box

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EvanAdams

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I have one piece of old 2009 enterprise software on my Vista Box, cost me $1600. Now the mfg has changed to subscription only model >$2000/yr & their software won't let me install my existing CD onto a new machine. They say I moved it from my original HP & then installed it twice on this machine so I've used all my allowed 'installs'.

Worst part: I use this software perhaps once a month. So it doesn't pay to buy a new copy.

This vista machine is dying. Fan is broken, hard drive seems to run 100% of the time and the old Core 2 Duo is not really keeping up anymore. I need an upgrade.

How do I ISO this whole old vista machine and dump it into a virtual machine on a new computer? Then I figure I can run this one stupid piece of software and not have to spend >$2K per year $170 / use for this software. What do I use VM Ware?
 
You will want to decide what platform you are wanting to Virtualize with. The two big ones are VMWare and Microsoft's Hyper-V. Both VMWare and Microsoft have tools for doing physical to virtual conversions also known as P2V. P2V is what you will want to research.
 
thanks, sometimes figuring out what to type into google is the hardest part.

ugh.... I don;t have any sort of server. This seems really hard! I figured I could run it inside of something like parallels on a mac but on a pc.
 
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