Copying The Host

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Is there anyway you can copy the full computer that holds the host of vmware for use inside vmware?

Jack

 

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You might want to try and reword or elaborate in that post Jack - dunno about anyone else, but I can't make senses of what you're getting at here ?

 

I want to create a copy of the computer that has vmware on it so that i can use the image of the host computer in vmware. does that make sense

 

you wanna copy your real physical machine?

 

I think VMware p2v assistant is what you're looking for Jack.

 

Thanks Phil Your The Man

 

Jack, what you need to do is to make an image of you machine. Then you restore the image into vmware
. At this point you won't be able to boot to the image (you'll bsod a lot). What you need to do then is boot that vm machine from the os cd and do a repair on the os. (make any sense?)

 

Nice one Phil, I always just backed up my host and restored it in a VM.