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As a temporary failsafe, i made an image of a life windows 7 system with vcenter converter from VMware.
What it does it creates a virtual machine that can be run from your current system.
Let say you want to upgrade to a new system but you may need your old system for a while but only as a virtual machine. With vcenter converter, you can do this. It is for linux and for windows.
I have not tested it with linux. I did with windows. I do have to note, if you want to run for example your current windows 7 installation in a virtual machine, because of the hardware virtualization, your virtualized windows might complain that it is no longer genuine. This is a similar effect as when changing your motherboard and cpu and still using the old windows product key that.is locked with that cpu and motherboard. This is something to be mindful about.
It is free software for personal use, for as far as i know it does not have any limitations.
Sometimes, it will create a clone but fail at 98% of the process because a failed reconfiguration.
This is not an issue. Just copy the virtualized OS files to the new host system. And run Vcenter there and perform the configuration. It will do its job and you have a virtualized system. Start vmware and load up the virtual machine and it is ready to run.
VMware Vcenter converter.
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=converter
The latest vmware player 12(64 bit)
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/12_0
What it does it creates a virtual machine that can be run from your current system.
Let say you want to upgrade to a new system but you may need your old system for a while but only as a virtual machine. With vcenter converter, you can do this. It is for linux and for windows.
I have not tested it with linux. I did with windows. I do have to note, if you want to run for example your current windows 7 installation in a virtual machine, because of the hardware virtualization, your virtualized windows might complain that it is no longer genuine. This is a similar effect as when changing your motherboard and cpu and still using the old windows product key that.is locked with that cpu and motherboard. This is something to be mindful about.
It is free software for personal use, for as far as i know it does not have any limitations.
Sometimes, it will create a clone but fail at 98% of the process because a failed reconfiguration.
This is not an issue. Just copy the virtualized OS files to the new host system. And run Vcenter there and perform the configuration. It will do its job and you have a virtualized system. Start vmware and load up the virtual machine and it is ready to run.
VMware Vcenter converter.
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=converter
The latest vmware player 12(64 bit)
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/12_0
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