[vcf-midatlantic] OT: XP p to v

[Jameel Akari]

I’ve done a few P2Vs for production servers back in the day.  Generally they have worked well, XP included.
(My old XP desktop at work was probably the first thing I converted.  So handy.)

USB passthrough should work, but there are a lot of variables.  I also can’t say that I ever tried it with XP but it should be supported.

What versions of VMware and XP?

Have you installed VMware Tools?  If so what version?

What did you use to perform the conversion?

What was the original hardware platform?

Is the hardware running the VM dedicated to to this purpose? (i.e. anything else that might be trying to grab USB?)

— 
Jameel Akari



I’ve done P2V for a number of OSes back in the day including XP - didn’t have any trouble with XP

> On Dec 20, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Kelly Leavitt via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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> It was not a clean install. Vendor is not supplying installation media nor drivers to keep the equipment running so I have to start with a functioning machine. Their only path is to buy a new machine. Not worth that kind of investment.
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> From: Richard Cini <rich.cini at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: OT: XP p to v
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> Out of curiosity, was that a clean XP install in the VM or a converted physical drive? Also, is there anything wrong with the existing host machine or is this virtual-proofing it?
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> I have several different VM setups. I mostly use Parallels on my Mac as the host, but I’ve also used VirtualBox on the Mac and Hyper-V on Windows. I haven’t experienced BSODs. Mostly I start with clean installs, use a Windows off-line update installer to apply updates (hundreds of them) and then add what I need from a hardware/software standpoint.
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> Rich
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> From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces at lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Kelly Leavitt via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org>
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> Cc: Kelly Leavitt <kelly at catcorner.org>
> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: XP p to v
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> Good afternoon all,
> This is Kelly from the vcfed. I was wondering if anyone had experience in converting physical machines to run in a virtual environment. It just seems like a skill I can find in this group.
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> I'm trying to help a friend convert an old XP machine that runs custom USB hardware into a virtual environment so he can keep using his equipment.
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> I have it running under VMWare, but it's not 100% stable. I get BSOD on shutdown about 50% of the time and about 10% of the time on system startup. I've removed all drivers for old non-needed equipment, did a repair XP install, installed the guest applications for XP and disabled sound and graphics acceleration already.
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> Thanks,
> Kelly