If you MUST migrate a physical machine to a VM, the way to do it (an annoying way) is to first use the VMWare P2V tool to convert it to a VM. Then use a tool to convert VMDK to virtualbox native disk format (google around for the tool name).
Not recommended unless you _really_ need to. As of now VirtualBox doesn't provide a direct Physical to Virtual Converter (P2V). Also, performance isn't as great as VMware server/VMware ESX (unscientific personal tests, YMMV). Regards, Ritesh On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Manish Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: > ambika divya wrote: >> How can i use a preinstalled os(installed on real harddisk) to run in >> the Virtual box or any other emulations apps? > > Tough to do. I don't think its possible so easily. You need to get an > installer CD/ISO. When you install any OS, it many times detects the > hardware and gets configured as such. The hardware which is emulated > using VirtualBox isn't the same as that which your real hardware. > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
