Re: [SL] Simplest way to move SL from PC to Virtual PC?

[Leho K. <le...@da...>]

Don't make a virtualization decision without checking out VirtualBox.

Michael Hasse wrote:

> Having just gone through some of that here I can say that VMware is  
> by far the most mature product on the market.  As for migration  
> strategies, that depends a bit on whether you want to take the  
> opportunity to clean things up at the same time or not.
>     We decided to go the cleanup route for most of our servers but we  
> did image a couple directly.  The Windows boxes came across just fine  
> by mirroring them to drive images presented via iSCSI and Ghost  
> worked pretty well for the Linux boxes.
>     Surprisingly, the Windows migrations actually seemed a bit  
> easier.  However, when a Windows image first boots VMware creates a  
> settings file for it and will ask you if it was a copy of another  
> image - be sure to say No!  Otherwise it will "conveniently" strip  
> out your key and you'll have to re-enter the key and re-register w/MS.