How to convert a physical PC into a Virtual Machine

This video shows you how to snapshot your system and copy it to a VHDX file for use with Hyper-V. I then show you how to use the virtualised in Microsoft Hyper-V. This process is often called P to V (Physical to Virtual)

Come with me as I show you how it's done, I hope this helps you out.
Please remember that Client and Server Hyper-V are free Hypervisors built into Windows 10 and Server 2016.

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[OnHoldAt]

Excellent refresher course. Thanks so much for putting that out there!

[adrianoros]

i love u dude, i kept trying to make a image system file and upload it to a virtual machine trying to system image restore from the troubleshooting windows and kept getting a lot of errors...didnt know things were actually this easy, u saved my ass

[cesarzayas]

Quick and to the point. Great tutorial

[mrf]

You are the man, I wanted to convert my desktop for Proxmox server

[TSnowy]

Cool, I've got a windows 98 Pentium 3 machine with a voodoo 3 graphics agp card. Even thou this vid is a few years old, I hope it still works

[frankswd]

Seems like it might be limited to less than 200GB. found this in the read me type file:

."Using Disk2vhd

The Disk2vhd user interface lists the volumes present on the system. It will create one VHD for each disk on which selected volumes reside. It preserves the partitioning information of the disk, but only copies the data contents for volumes on the disk that are selected. This enables you to capture just system volumes and exclude data volumes, for example.

Note: Virtual PC supports a maximum virtual disk size of 127GB. If you create a VHD from a larger disk, even if you only include data from a smaller volume, it will not be accessible from a Virtual PC VM. In addition Virtual PC doesn't support the Multiprocessor Specification, which means that it won't be able to boot VHD's from multiprocessor Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems.
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[rooboy]

FYI I wouldn't recommend saving the vhd file to the same volume your creating a copy of

[herchd]

Hi,
I have rare business program on older XP laptop and i want transfer it and use it on newer laptop with windows 7 OS installed. I lost installation setup CD of that business program, so how can i transfer and use that program from older to new laptop?

[reto]

Exactly what i needed to install linux as my main OS

[BTriumph]

Thank you for posting this instructional video. Appreciate how to the point you are NO 3 minute intro with music and stupid effects.

[bertvantol]

GREAT !! Thanks !!
Just one question ....
Will the Virtual Machine you just made, also run in Virual Box in Linux ??

[intellectracoon]

what an excellent tutorial.
thanks a lot Jake, have a great day.

[JustNickGavriel]

Good Video - clear and concise. This is the first viable answer to 'how to move to an old PC to new hardware without a reinstall' that I have found. So a big thanks for the video. Just one question, what factors go into the choice between Gen 1 and Gen 2 options?

[vlauv]

Can it be virtualized an external USB SSD attached drive?

[VijayKumar-idvy]

Thank you for this video, good one and very simple.

[waqar_ku]

this work with same pc but if you create virtual machine and transfer to other place like in server hyper v it's not work i try so many times. if there is any way then please make video and share with us

[henryjayr]

Will Active Directory policies still apply? Example: if I disable a user will they still be able to log into this machine?

[q.u.e.r.t.y]

I want to dual boot linux and windows. But I want to be able to edit and view windows from Linux and any change I make stays there when I boot into windows and it's not virtual change.
Anyway to do something like this? I know I can simply write to the Windows partition directly but I prefer a GUI Windows

[syafiq]

is there any limit storage size can convert? as my physicals PC got size 15TB in size?

[LosoIAm]

Many thanks for an awesome tutorial, Sir.