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Question: With the new standalone converter how do you do a Cold P2V? (booting from CD)

With the new standalone converter how do you do a Cold P2V? (booting from CD)

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KMR0410
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Well, I see Cold Conversions are no longer supported.

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KMR0410
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Well, I see Cold Conversions are no longer supported.

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continuum
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I still use latest Converter for Cold Clones.
Procedure in short: use a LiveCD with iSCSI-support to boot the target system.
Create a new VM that uses the target drive as a RDM.
Run Converter against the new VM you just created  - select VsphereVM.

Takes a few extra steps but performs better than the Coldclone CDs.


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WinXPvirtualize
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If no more supported the user manual (this of Converter) must not do any references to cold conversion nor to boot CD required to carry out such.

The manual newly downloaded from vmware server / web does make such references, pages 11, 12, 15.

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patanassov
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Did you download the latest manual (5.5)? I didn't find any such references in it.

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WinXPvirtualize
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Not, it is 5.0 manual.

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patanassov
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Then it has been fixed.

This may be considered a bug in 5.0 documentation. We usually fix bugs in subsequent releases (very rarely in update releases, only for critical issues)

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