PHYSICAL TO VIRTUAL MIGRATION

PHYSICAL TO VIRTUAL MIGRATION 

Download Disk2VHD from SysInternals website. I've added a hyperlink too,  so you don't have to be searching around. Disk2VHD 

It'd be downloaded as a .zip file to your computer. Extract that and open the "disk2vhd" application in the extracted folder.

                                        

Now, in this exercise, I'd be cloning the OS drive on which, as you might have guessed it, the OS is installed on this logical volume.

                                       

Then, tick the box corresponding to the C: drive and click the "Create" button beneath to begin the cloning process. 

                                     

Wait for some time till' you see this message that the disk was exported successfully.

                                        

Now open VirtualBox and click on "New" icon.

Then, choose the option "Use an existing virtual hard disk file".

 

Then, your explorer window would pop up asking you to choose the VHD file. I've saved my VHD file in drive E:\, so gonna use that. 

Your Physical to Virtual migration (P2V) migration has been successful. :D