The key question, I think, is what for do you want to use this vmdk image? VMDK and copying/moving VMs to other hosts.Īs far as I understand it, vmdk itself is a hard drive image, it’s like a virtual hard drive.

Also I’ve never used VMWare, I’ve used VirtualBox and KVM/qemu. ? will the Home/Home Office version of Ghost handle a VMWare P2V conversion? I reviewed the nice tutorial on the latest Server Version of Ghost (ie deploying Vista) but didn't see any referrences to Virtual Machines and/or the Home Office/Small Office version.To tell the truth I don’t know about professional way and how companies do it ) And I would be interested to hear from people in the know. Still surprised that someone is doing this in a Virtual Machine but not Symantec for its customers. No one home on Labor Day, so maybe later in the week I can follow-up with them. I think VMWare Player would possibly work, but I think that in order to get that on the clients computers, I still have to have an expensive version of VMWare. I noted from your response the VMWare does allow a conversion of a Ghost image to a virtual machine image, but we have too many small company (1-3/5 computers per) that are looking for a way to run older software and any software investment must be really justified even if its only a couple hundred. I'm using Virtual PC which does not utilize a ghost image, thus the question. We've got too many small businesses that are wedded to their old programs so a 'virtual machine' that runs the program would be just fine with them! Suggest possible 'software' conversion program from Ghost to ISO that can be then booted in any Virtual PC utilzing the older OS, still might need some newer drivers, but that would solve a major problem. If I have an older machine that's running (bully :) ) but anymore I can't simply replace it with a newer model, the older stuff just can't find drivers and the newer OS-eg Vista, just doesn't run the software. I've used Ghost for years to create 'backups' but as older equipment is becoming so outdated/obsolete and newer OS's becoming too sophisticated to operate the older software, we're slowly dying in the 'trenches'. I've seen some documents/processes on BartPE/VMWare but nothing on MS Virtual PC.įor Symantec, this would be an 'extraordinary' tool/separate product. General ? for anyone, has anybody had luck converting a 'good' Ghost Image to an 'ISO' image for possible use in a Virtual Machine.

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