There seems to be some knowledgeable people on this forum hence it being a good place to ask the following question.
I have an old XP machine with a 60GB disk and a new XP machine with a 500GB disk. If I create a additional partition on the new machine that will hold a disk image of the old machine is there any way I can boot it up whilst the new machine is running by using a virtual machine?
I want to avoid the hassle of rebooting the new machine and selecting a different partition whenever I want the "old machine" can start up.
There seems to be some knowledgeable people on this forum hence it being a good place to ask the following question.
I have an old XP machine with a 60GB disk and a new XP machine with a 500GB disk. If I create a additional partition on the new machine that will hold a disk image of the old machine is there any way I can boot it up whilst the new machine is running by using a virtual machine?
I want to avoid the hassle of rebooting the new machine and selecting a different partition whenever I want the "old machine" can start up.
Microsoft were giving away Virtual Server and Virtual PC not so long ago, perhaps those are still available. FWIW, I have Virtual Server running on an XP Pro machine with lots of RAM. This works well, although I understand that Virtual PC would be better. However, the virtual machine won't have the same hardware as your old machine, and so you probably won't be able to boot it from a copy of the old hard disk. Instead, you'll need to install the OS and application software from the old machine.
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Microsoft were giving away Virtual Server and Virtual PC not so long ago, perhaps those are still available. FWIW, I have Virtual Server running on an XP Pro machine with lots of RAM. This works well, although I understand that Virtual PC would be better. However, the virtual machine won't have the same hardware as your old machine, and so you probably won't be able to boot it from a copy of the old hard disk. Instead, you'll need to install the OS and application software from the old machine.
I believe VMware offers an app to do the migration for you.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:57:22 +0100, Rob Horton <yahoo@mr_horton.com> said in <[email hidden]>:
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There seems to be some knowledgeable people on this forum hence it being a good place to ask the following question.
I have an old XP machine with a 60GB disk and a new XP machine with a 500GB disk. If I create a additional partition on the new machine that will hold a disk image of the old machine is there any way I can boot it up whilst the new machine is running by using a virtual machine?
I want to avoid the hassle of rebooting the new machine and selecting a different partition whenever I want the "old machine" can start up.
I reckon you want VMware converter starter edition and a copy of VMware player, which are both SFP.
Hijacking this thread a teensy bit, I administer a couple of machines for a charity I volunteer for. One critical piece of software will not run unless the user has admin rights on the (XP) machine.
Doh!
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Can I install a VM with a user who has admin rights on the VM, but running as a normal user on the underlying instance of XP?
It's going to depend on why the app needs admin rights, and to what. There are other options to sort that kind of thing out too, like running the app using a different account's credentials (without needing the virtual machine at all), or setting appropriate permissions on the things a normal user can't get at (if that doesn't just bork the machine's security). So the short answer is yes to running the app with admin inside the VM, but whether the app can do what it needs to from inside the VM is another question, as is whether a VM is the most appropriate solution. Some more details might help get a better answer. Other things to try are granting the user admin rights to install it then seeing how it runs when the admin rights are removed. Often its only the installation which needs admin, or you might find out from the error message what it is that it needs admin rights to.
I want to avoid the hassle of rebooting the new machine and selecting a different partition whenever I want the "old machine" can start up.
I reckon you want VMware converter starter edition and a copy of VMware player, which are both SFP.
Hijacking this thread a teensy bit, I administer a couple of machines for a charity I volunteer for. One critical piece of software will not run unless the user has admin rights on the (XP) machine.
Can I install a VM with a user who has admin rights on the VM, but running as a normal user on the underlying instance of XP?
John
yes virtual machine's will be fine with that as far as the version of XP thats the beauty of them, as far as the host version of XP is concned the VM is just a application.
There seems to be some knowledgeable people on this forum hence it being a good place to ask the following question.
I have an old XP machine with a 60GB disk and a new XP machine with a 500GB disk. If I create a additional partition on the new machine that will hold a disk image of the old machine is there any way I can boot it up whilst the new machine is running by using a virtual machine?
I want to avoid the hassle of rebooting the new machine and selecting a different partition whenever I want the "old machine" can start up.
Thanks.
Virtualbox - free.
Microsoft's offering is not as good and it has licensing issues.
You wont even need a seperate partition. Whilst some virtual machines can use real disk images most people use image files which will not boot outside of the VM monitor.
It's brilliant - I was playing with it a few weeks ago and it just works. I had a full-screen Windows XP VM running on one of my Linux desktops and really couldn't tell it wasn't running natively.
