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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Ultimate-P2V - A free P2V tool.

Very cool... I'll need to play with this and report back on how it works. I have a couple physical servers myself that I need to virtualize. This should be interesting.

Ultimate-P2V (fix-vmscsi) is a free plug-in that allows you to clone a physical machine to virtual machine - and perform the neccessary “system reconfiguration” required to make it bootable. Without this tool or a commerical P2V tool the virtual machine would just give a “blue screen of death”

This document outlines how to configure a BartPE Boot-CD with the appropriate drivers and plug-ins to perform the P2V. We use Symantec Ghost 8 merely as an example of a disk cloning tool - but really any cloning software (with a supported plug-in) would work just as well.

The guide walks you through a completely manual creation of these plug-ins and drivers. The intention is allow you to configure a BartPE with the lastest drivers if you so wish. Alternatively, you can use the pre-configured plug-ins below.
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Posted By: Jim on Thursday, February 02, 2006
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8 Comments:

  • allanice001
    Great tool, where can i find a v2p tool?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at March 15, 2006 11:12 AM  

  • You can have a look at http://www.vmware.com/support/v2p.

    Regards,

    Ernst
    spyker.sa@gmail.com

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at March 16, 2006 12:23 AM  

  • Great. It will save so much time for me. Thx.

    By Anonymous polarizer, at April 04, 2006 12:19 AM  

  • Where are the links? What document? Pre-configured plug-ins below? Hello...how about a link to the original article?!?!?!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at May 04, 2006 9:42 PM  

  • Sorry about that. The title used to link to the original article, but I changed the template and forgot to go back and fix posts like this one. It is on there now.

    Jim

    By Blogger Jim, at May 05, 2006 6:52 AM  

  • Great post, thanks for the help!!

    Tracy V

    By Blogger Tracy V, at September 12, 2006 1:53 PM  

  • I think that these P2V tools are just complicating a very simple process. Take NT Backup of Physical system. Create a VM with the same OS and restore. I have just done this with our DC. Worked a charm!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at February 15, 2007 3:45 AM  

  • just manually add the drivers & have a go.

    make a vm that runs off the physical partition

    make a hardware profile in windows that has the supporting drivers for the vm (and of course a backout one with the current config

    (or make a kernel in linux, add to lilo or grub, leave the old one for a backout)

    if you want it on a virtual disk after that, make a new vmdk(s) of the appropriate size, add it to the vm, start the vm format the new vmdk(s) and shut it down.,use the vmware-mount (on the host) utility to mount the new empty disk, use your favorite utility to copy/sync files...I use rsync

    you now have 1 set of physical disks that will boot in a vm or on the actual iron, and one set of virtual disks.

    now I usually make a new vm to use the virtual disk.

    By Anonymous guruvan, at December 16, 2007 4:16 AM  

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