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    Migrating machines

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Starfox, Jul 22, 2009.

  1. Starfox

    Starfox Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm planning to migrate from my current laptop (V1S) to a newer one (Asus G51-A1), and usually it takes me about three months to fully migrate. Now that I have a work-paid license to VMWare 6, I was wondering whether I can take an image of my V1S's 160 GB drive and boot it with VMWare, basically having my old machine as a VM to ease the migration? Has anyone attempted that before?
     
    Starfox, Jul 22, 2009
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    Probably won't work, since VM has its own set of hardware also.
     
    goofball, Jul 22, 2009
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    Nah, it worked, VMWare has an import/export option! Kickass.
     
    Starfox, Jul 23, 2009
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