Step 2: You can convert a physical disk to a virtual disk in this window. Then just setup a new virtual machine to point to the existing VHD files. Step 1: After running Disk2vhd, you will be prompted with a window. For serious physical to virtual conversions of production systems you need a reliable, automated software. Once completed copy the VHD files to any computer with Microsoft Virtual PC, Hyper-V or any virtualization app that supports VHD files. Disk2VHD is really an unsupported Microsoft toy. On my computer it took about 45 minutes to copy the drive into a VHD file because of a large amount of data. Each physical partition will be saved in a separate VHD file.Ĭlick Create and the process will begin.
Now just specify the VHD file name and location and check the drives you want to convert to a VHD. To get started download the utility from Microsoft by clicking here.Īfter you have it downloaded, extract the zip file and run disk2vhd.exe. This is perfect for duplicating a production server for a development virtual machine that you can use on a different computer.īelow is a Microsoft screenshot of a copy of Window Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V system running in a virtual machine on top of the system it was created from. The VHD files generated can be used in Microsoft Virtual PC or on Hyper-V server and you will have an instant clone of your machine running virtually. Disk2vhd allows you to create VHD (virtual hard dive) files from physical drives on your computer while your system is online. I get repeated errors 'The virtual machine 'New Virtual Machine' could not start because the hypervisor is not running' I googled it & did enable DEP but that does not result in success. The Windows Sysinternals group at Microsoft has released Disk2vhd that is a free physical to virtual converter. I have tried all the tools Starwind, Winimage, disk2vhd etc they all generate a VHD file but when I create a ne Virtual Computer & attach the disk none works.
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