I have purchased an iMac with OS X 10.5 and Fusion. I want to convert my existing physical XP Pro SP2 system to a virtual machine on OS X.
I downloaded and ran VMWare Converter on the XP system. The conversion parameters I used were to put the converted image onto a second, empty internal NTSF drive (E:) and chose the minimal disk size instead of maintaining the current C: drive size and checked the 2Gb option. The task took 10 hours on a P4 2.8Ghz machine but it did finally complete. I did get one message at the beginning saying that since I only selected the C: drive to convert that I wouldn't be able to boot the virtual machine. Is this right? Should I have chosen to maintain the C: drive size during the conversion? I'm not certain about that 2Gb option either.
Basically I'm looking for guidance as to the best choices to make in moving my XP system to run under Fusion. I am planning to remove the internal E: drive and connect it to a USB2 interface for doing the file transfer onto the iMac.
thanks for any suggestions or references.
Once I get past this phase and actually put the files on the iMac and launch Fusion, will I have to validate my Windows license somehow to run on the new hardware?
Larry
I downloaded and ran VMWare Converter on the XP system. The conversion parameters I used were to put the converted image onto a second, empty internal NTSF drive (E:) and chose the minimal disk size instead of maintaining the current C: drive size and checked the 2Gb option. The task took 10 hours on a P4 2.8Ghz machine but it did finally complete. I did get one message at the beginning saying that since I only selected the C: drive to convert that I wouldn't be able to boot the virtual machine. Is this right? Should I have chosen to maintain the C: drive size during the conversion? I'm not certain about that 2Gb option either.
Basically I'm looking for guidance as to the best choices to make in moving my XP system to run under Fusion. I am planning to remove the internal E: drive and connect it to a USB2 interface for doing the file transfer onto the iMac.
thanks for any suggestions or references.
Once I get past this phase and actually put the files on the iMac and launch Fusion, will I have to validate my Windows license somehow to run on the new hardware?
Larry
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