VMware: Physical to Virtual

Today, VMware released a tool that makes the process of migrating an existing physical machine to a virtual machine really easy. The tool is called VMware Converter 3.0 and I tried it on a system with 500 GB of hard drive space partitioned into two drives. The system has two 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ processors with Hyper-Threading Technology running at 3.2 GHz with 2 MB L2 cache and an 800 MHz Front Side Bus. Windows XP Professional had been previously installed with approximately 4.0 GB of RAM available. The entire process of performing a live migration of the system with approximately 25 GB of data took about 1 hour and 15 minutes. I even had the option of renaming the computer and resizing the primary partition. I will soon post more information about the procedure on www.novelimage.net