Converting From Physical to a VM

[AlexF]

I'm trying to clone a physical host to a VM using the converter. I get to the part where it prompts for a location. It must be in the form of //machine/share , but I don't have an OS yet installed on the VM. I thought the converter is supposed to clone the physical box, including the OS. Am I supposed to install Windows on the VM so I could clone the physical host to it?

[RDPetruska · Accepted solution]

It's asking for the share point on another server where it can create the files for the VM it is about to create. You can't put files into thin air -- they must be created on a hard disk partitioned with a filesystem \*somewhere*.

[choming_tsai]

Hi RDPetruska, could you explain this case more clear? do you mean converter can't convert some type of applications such as Microsoft share-point to VM? We have problem to convert some Win2003 with Microsoft share-point, the service can't start-up. Thanks for your reply.

Mark

[admin]

Converter is simply wanting a Windows network share to be able to create a folder and files for the new VM. You specify the share by
host_name\share. For example,
10.10.1.15\c$