{"id":464,"date":"2006-06-02T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/p2ving-my-notebook-pc-part-2.htm"},"modified":"2007-03-09T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T13:43:42","slug":"p2ving-my-notebook-pc-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/p2ving-my-notebook-pc-part-2.htm","title":{"rendered":"P2Ving my notebook PC: part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--114934098967465063-->Last week I wrote about how I&#8217;d lost most of my bank holiday weekend trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/using-platespin-powerconvert-to-p2v-my.htm\">perform a physical to virtual (P2V) conversion of my corporate notebook PC<\/a>. Well, I&#8217;m pleased to say that I&#8217;ve resolved the remaining issues and I&#8217;m very happy with the results.<\/p>\n<p>The last remaining problem after I&#8217;d used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platespin.com\/products\/powerconvertmain.aspx\">PlateSpin PowerConvert<\/a> to carry out the conversion to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/virtualserver\/\">Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2<\/a> was getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/en\/US\/products\/sw\/secursw\/ps2308\/\">Cisco Systems VPN Client<\/a> to work. I spent two days trying various settings, removing and reinstalling the VPN software (and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zonelabs.com\/\">Zone Labs<\/a> Integrity Client that my corporate VPN connection also requires) but was getting nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>With or without a VPN solution, my end goal was a VMware virtual machine, as Microsoft Virtual Server is intended as a remote\/server virtualisation solution, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/virtualpc\/\">Microsoft Virtual PC<\/a> only runs on Windows\/Macintosh platforms (I needed a cross-platform solution as I intend to run my virtual machine as a guest on both Windows and Linux). That&#8217;s where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/server\/\">VMware Server<\/a> beta 3 came in useful, as I used its virtual machine importer feature to import the Virtual Server configuration before installing the VMware Tools and copying the whole virtual machine elsewhere to run it using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/player\/\">VMware Player<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this sounds complicated, then there are some good reasons for taking the physical hardware &#8211; Microsoft Virtual Server &#8211; VMware Server &#8211; VMware Player route.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firstly, PlateSpin PowerConvert didn&#8217;t recognise my VMware Server beta 3 server and I don&#8217;t have a licensed copy of VMware Workstation\/GSX\/ESX (except an old VMware Workstation 4 licence) so Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 was my only viable route.<\/li>\n<li>Secondly, whilst VMware claim that their Player supports Microsoft virtual machines, my experience is that the import fails.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, VMware Player does not include VMware Tools. 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It can also import from certain disk image files and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/using-platespin-powerconvert-to-p2v-my.htm#c114933818034299837\">that may well be a method of avoiding the use of the software that I used to carry out the P2V operation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;d rebuilt my notebook with a different base operating system (I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsvista\/\">Windows Vista<\/a> beta 2 at the moment), it was simply a case of installing the VMware Player. Although I don&#8217;t recall any errors on installation, I did need to manually configure the VMware Bridge Protocol on my Ethernet connection as VMnet 0 (and reboot), before VMware Player would allow the guest to connect to the network.<\/p>\n<p>Plug and play dealt with the virtual hardware changes along the way and the VPN connection worked first time (without any obvious changes) &#8211; I can only assume that the VMware bridged network connection works in a different way to the Virtual Server network that was causing my VPN client to fail in a Virtual Server virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p>After spending most of today working with my Windows XP virtual corporate client running as a guest under Windows Vista, the whole project seems to have been a success, although I&#8217;m still planning on dual-booting Windows Vista with Linux (keeping the virtual machine on a partition accessible from both operating systems) so there may well be a part three to this story yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wrote about how I&#8217;d lost most of my bank holiday weekend trying to perform a physical to virtual (P2V) conversion of my corporate notebook PC. 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