2moldy4me
Sun Sep 30, 2012 4:50:50 pm
Could be.
I see MadVinegar's very helpful & concise tutorial here:
http://zoringroup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2380
And it looks very promising - Great Big Kudos for making that for all of us, MadVinegar !!!
BUT:
There is a seriously missing bit in all of these Vbox antics, I have found.
Please allow me to 'splain=>
I likes windurrs the way some folks like their coffee, simple, straight up, hot, and black...no cream, no sugar, nothing fancy - plain as can be.
So I snip away the excesses (which are MANY) and this takes alot of time & effort.
It also makes that notoriously fickle OS far more stable.
What is missing from most of the info I have found is any concise guides to do what is called P2V.
I have TWO versions of windurrs to try inside Vbox - XP Pro SP2 and Win2kPro - and have each all nicely slimmed down and running (I'm using the XP right now...) and ready to do P2V on - if only I could gain the needed directions for getting HERE from THERE !!!
I've been searching and found some nice looking info as well as free tools.
Last time I tried this it nearly drove me over a cliff because there was no instructions as to how one opens and/or attaches the created VDI, VHD or VMDK file(s).
I'm working at making this become clearer for me - and aim for results to be visible very soon.
1st, of course, I must re-install Vbox, which I'd completely obliterated when it seemed impossible for the version included with ZorinOS to be useful to me.
Between my last posting about this and the present, I came into some nicer hand-me-down parts too, so now my ZorinOS PC has a better CPU and more RAM, which should make all of this work better too.
More later...as this develops - but in the meantime, if anyone can list off the exact steps one must perform to go from a freshly installed Vbox program => to having a VM open with an already made & P2V'd OS running inside of it - please, please, please do post this info and it will be greatly appreciated (and by more than just me, I bet) !!!
Thanks.
I see MadVinegar's very helpful & concise tutorial here:
http://zoringroup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2380
And it looks very promising - Great Big Kudos for making that for all of us, MadVinegar !!!
BUT:
There is a seriously missing bit in all of these Vbox antics, I have found.
Please allow me to 'splain=>
I likes windurrs the way some folks like their coffee, simple, straight up, hot, and black...no cream, no sugar, nothing fancy - plain as can be.
So I snip away the excesses (which are MANY) and this takes alot of time & effort.
It also makes that notoriously fickle OS far more stable.
What is missing from most of the info I have found is any concise guides to do what is called P2V.
I have TWO versions of windurrs to try inside Vbox - XP Pro SP2 and Win2kPro - and have each all nicely slimmed down and running (I'm using the XP right now...) and ready to do P2V on - if only I could gain the needed directions for getting HERE from THERE !!!
I've been searching and found some nice looking info as well as free tools.
Last time I tried this it nearly drove me over a cliff because there was no instructions as to how one opens and/or attaches the created VDI, VHD or VMDK file(s).
I'm working at making this become clearer for me - and aim for results to be visible very soon.
1st, of course, I must re-install Vbox, which I'd completely obliterated when it seemed impossible for the version included with ZorinOS to be useful to me.
Between my last posting about this and the present, I came into some nicer hand-me-down parts too, so now my ZorinOS PC has a better CPU and more RAM, which should make all of this work better too.
More later...as this develops - but in the meantime, if anyone can list off the exact steps one must perform to go from a freshly installed Vbox program => to having a VM open with an already made & P2V'd OS running inside of it - please, please, please do post this info and it will be greatly appreciated (and by more than just me, I bet) !!!
Thanks.