No sysprep.. We used the personal version of Ghost8, and put it in with the ultimate boot cd ... so booted off the UBCD w/ ghost on it, and then did a straight ghost 2 ghost copy. I would say I did this about 5-10 times in the early virtualization days as proof of concept.
When we first started virtualizing vmware convertor was several thousand dollars and I was tasked with finding ways around it. using a boot disk with ghost, pre-installing physical or vmware drivers I could migrate boxes (not live) and they worked everytime as long as I had the right drivers pre-installed. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Leone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box On 11/14/2011 10:20 PM, Benjamin Zachary wrote: > In the past years back, we would install the driver controller > (Raid/HP/Dell > etc) into the 2000/2003 vm, then ghost it from VM to physical. Usually > this got us at least into booting and then re-detected all the new > hardware , several reboots later we were okay (drivers loading, > rebooting etc). if any issues you just turn the vm back on , having > the drivers loaded doesn't matter. Hmmm .... pre-installing disk and NIC drivers into the currently running VM first. There's an idea .. and you didn't sysprep first? How did you "ghost it from VM to physical"? We don't have an Enterprise version of Ghost, or a Ghost server. > > Platespin comes to mind ... for p2v and v2p ... Symantec made a > similar product in the early days I don't know if it still exists. I > think its built into Backup Exec today. > There will be no budget for any purchases. Yes, I've asked. Repeatedly ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
