Fusion 5 on OS X 10.4 Mountain Lion Migration Agent Support

[JKLandes]

The marketing materials for the latest version of Fusion 5 says it's optimized for OS X 10.4 Mountain Lion.

When I run the migration agent to P2V my Windows 7 x64 PC, it crashes.

A KB article says the migration agent is not supported on OS X 10.4 Mountain Lion.

Call me a stickler, but this does not sound like it's optimized for OS X 10.4 to me....

I have a brand new Macbook Pro wunning OS X 10.4.

I'd like to P2V my Windows 7 x64 PC and get rid of the hardware.

Am I going to have to do a Windows backup, build a new Windows VM and restore it?

Can someone tell me my options? I am mostly disappointed here....

[ColoradoMarmot · Accepted solution]

Mountain Lion is 10.8, not 10.4.   If you really are running 10.4, that's why nothing is working.

The migration agent can't migrate an OSX machine to a virtual machine - that's the support it's talking about.  But the converter is hit or miss - many windows machines have strange drivers and software that prevent it from working.  The standalone vmware converter works better.  But.....

Converting existing computers is not recommended.  It results in a bloated, buggy, unstable virtual machine.  Since you have to purchase a windows 7 retail license anyway (the OEM licenses that come with computers can't be virtualized legally), you're better off building a VM from scratch.