If we want to convert a Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, we need first to change the physical hard drive to a virtual one using a free utility called Disk2vhd. Then, since ...

As a writer and product tester, I spend a lot of time working on my computer. When I bought a new laptop, I wanted very specific features: a big LCD to reduce eye strain, a large comfortable keyboard ...

Conversion applications move a working host into its new virtual environment along with its stored application images in tow. Unless VM guests are installed from ‘bare metal’ operating systems and ...

In this final installment of our virtualization series, we look at the issue of physical-to-virtual conversion, and give tips on best practices. Couple of things, ESX supports host USB passthrough and ...

Converter 3 takes a snapshot of the server's operating system, application, and data, establishes it in a virtual machine on a different server, then transfers operations to the virtual machine. The ...

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to take a Virtual VMware image and put that onto a physical box? I know about the VMconverter tool that converts physical to virtual but was wondering is it ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. After a four-month beta run, VMware is preparing to ...

Virtual Iron’s Enterprise Edition V3 is a virtual machine hosting platform that couples its open source hosting foundation with tools to convert existing servers into VMs and subsequently manage them.

The conversion of a Virtual Machine (VM) to a physical one moves the virtualized instance of an Operating System and the associated or installed application software from a virtualized environment to ...