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    Which hypervisor?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Takosan, May 25, 2011.

  1. Takosan

    Takosan Notebook Enthusiast

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    Greetings!

    I was running XPP under VMWare Fusion on Tiger and finally have to replace my MacBook (original Dual Core), this time with a Wintel laptop. Have some questions for virtualization experts:

    1) Can the XPP image (VMWare Fusion) convert to XP Mode image (Virtual PC?) usable under W7Pro 64bit?

    3) If latter then I have one more guest OS under VMWare Fusion (DOS/Win3.1) ... does it convert well to VirtualBox?

    Thank you for you inputs.
    Rob
     
    Takosan, May 25, 2011
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    JTOverath Notebook Evangelist

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    You can always try VMWare Player. It's free. Seems to me VMware also has a converter program, but don't remember the name (may be VMWare Converter).
     
    JTOverath, May 26, 2011
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    Takosan Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes, I guess the other route will be to try opening the images created under VMWare Fusion with Player & VirtualBox - trial & error. On a slightly different topic (b/c I saw Droid in your sig), do you by any chance sync Droid w/Outlook?
     
    Takosan, May 26, 2011
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