Here are the steps I took to build my free cold clone boot CD. Just how cool is it? How about the ability to boot a physical box and start the originally installed system as a virtual machine? It’s very, very nice and developed by an obvious super-genius.
Basically, it creates a LiveCD that runs the free VMware Converter on top of a Windows Server 2003 kernel. Cold cloning requires the VMware Cold Clone Boot ISO, which is only available to VMware Converter Enterprise license-holders.Īfter some Googling around, I came across this thing called MOA, Multi-Operating system Administration.
But as you well know, the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone app can only perform P2V hot cloning. This would leave me with a hard drive with a XP installation ready to generate new IDs the next time it was powered on. The best method would be to unregister the ZENworks object, uninstall the Adaptive Agent, pull it off the network, reinstall the Adaptive Agent, and then sysprep -reseal -shutdown the machine. After weighing my options, I decided that it wouldn’t be practical to hot clone the physical machine.
This example converts a source differencing disk of VHDX format to a destination differencing disk of VHD format that is connected to an existing parent disk.I needed to convert a physical Windows XP Professional machine running ZENworks into a VMware virtual machine, but only after removing the unique identifiers like the Windows’ SID and ZENworks’ GUID, so that I could later make multiple copies of the VM without them all writing to the same ZENworks object. Example 2 PS C:\> Convert-VHD -Path c:\test\child1vhdx.vhdx -DestinationPath c:\test\child1vhd.vhd -VHDType Differencing -ParentPath c:\test\parentvhd.vhd This example converts a source VHD to a destination VHDX.īecause the format is determined by the file name extension and the default type is determined by the source virtual hard disk when no type is specified, the destination virtual hard disk will be a VHDX-format disk of the same type as the source virtual hard disk. Examples Example 1 PS C:\> Convert-VHD -Path c:\test\testvhd.vhd -DestinationPath c:\test\testvhdx.vhdx vhd.Ĭonversion is an offline operation the virtual hard disk must not be attached when the operation is started. The format is determined by the file name extension of the specified files, either.
The Convert-VHD cmdlet converts a virtual hard disk file by copying the data from a source virtual hard disk file to a new virtual hard disk file of a specified format and version type. Converts the format, version type, and block size of a virtual hard disk file.
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