Comments on: How to Convert a Physical Windows XP Machine to a VM (P2V) for Use in VirtualBox

By: drcronik

drcronik — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:11:35 +0000

How do I prevent the windows authentication from going bad so that I do not have to re register?

By: ctsgnb

ctsgnb — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:57:49 +0000

One of the limitations that is mentionned in the *.chm that comes with disk2vhd is the followig :

disk2vhd can only handle disks that are lower than 127Gb, (you can NOT use it with bigger disks, even if the chosen partition to virtualize is smaller than 127Gb).

By: ijaved

ijaved — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:33:15 +0000

Alrite I wanted to share problem i faced when running virtualbox vm(p2v) on optiplex 960. Xp won’t boot and kept on giving me bluescreens. I ran the same VM on optiplex 780 and it worked fine and booted without a problem. So it was hardware based issue with 960 model.

After wasting 2 hours toggling with options and google i found the solution :-

1- Make sure in VM Settings (System / Processor – The option for Extended Features: Enable PAE/NX) is enabled.

2- From XP Safe Mode (Yes VM boots into Safe Mode) run this command from CLI “sc config intelppm start= disabled”

Hope this helps someone out there.

By: ijaved

ijaved — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:39:08 +0000

Well took a while to make the vhd out of disk2vhd but it fired up without any issues. Im running the latest version of virtualbox 4.1.2 and physical machine was dell optiplex 960 running xp.

Only thing it complained about was ATI card and multi monitor support which was after getting into OS :p nothing critical.

One thing probably to note is that disk2vhd only support windows so you will still have to use the same method used above if ur using linux.

By: ijaved

ijaved — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:24:45 +0000

I was trying this out but then I found disk2vhd and trying that out. Disk2Vhd looks simple but lets see. I will let you guys know if it works out

By: tom

tom — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:41:41 +0000

you used 3.0.3 am i right?

By: tom

tom — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:22:57 +0000

which version of VMware converter did you use??(I use 4.3.0 and some things are a bit different I think..)

By: woestyn

woestyn — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:33:25 +0000

Thank you very much for this post. I have struggels with disk2vhd and then I tried your method with virtualboc and vm_converter. It worker perfectly. You saved me a lot of time.
Thank you
woestyn

By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:48:22 +0000

Same method explained with screen shots here
http://www.sysprobs.com/physical-virtual-virtualbox-virtualbox-p2v