Here are the simple steps it takes to have your old PC up and running in your new PC, using VMLite:
* Get an external hard drive that can hold all the data on your old PC.
* Copy a simple MyOldPCs program to the hard drive and connect the hard drive to the old PC.
* Run the copied MyOldPCs program, which will convert your old PC to a file that can be accessed from your new PC.
* Once the conversion is done, connect the hard disk to your new PC, and start running and enjoying your old PC with VMLite Workstation... More Info »
MyOldPCs Features
* Extremely easy to use with only a few clicks through wizard based GUI
* Supports physical to virtual machine conversion (P2V)
* Supports conversion between different virtual disk formats (V2V)
* Supports Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, client and server editions, all service packs, 32- and 64-bit
* Windows 95, 98, Windows Me and Windows NT support will be available next version
* Supports Windows and Linux as guest OSes, for example, you can convert a linux partition to a vm using MyOldPCs running on a Windows partition
* High performing volume based clone algorithm, with only used blocks are copied
* Performs live cloning while your system is fully operational
* All files, including those exclusively opened or locked by other processes, are cloned
* Supports the most complicated Windows installation scenarios
* Supports multiple partitions and multiple disks
* Supports multiple-boot system that contains Windows and Linux OSes on different partitions
* Supports mulitple-boot system that contains different Windows installations in different folders on the same partition
* Supports VMware (VMDK), Microsoft (VHD), and Sun (VDI) virtual disk formats
* Generated virtual machines can be launched by all major virtual machine engines, including VMLite Workstation, Sun's VirtualBox, VMware, Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix's Xen and RedHat's KVM.
MyOldPCs trial version is available upon email request. You can send email to: info@vmlite.com.
Link to official VMLite MyOldPCs site
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virtual-machines vm-converter v2v p2v vdmk2vhd v2vdmk vdi2vhd vdmk2vdi vdi2vdmk
VMLite MyOldPCs (sometimes referred to as MyOldPCs) was added by em4020 in
Dec 2010 and the latest update was made in
Nov 2014. The list of alternatives was updated Sep 2019.
It's possible to update the information on VMLite MyOldPCs or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.
