Hi, I am new to VMware products and to migrating OS from physical machine to virtual one which is the next job now here.
Means a Windows XP SP3 which currently runs on real PC is going to run as virtual machine.
Using the Converter Standalone for that is one possible solution path.
Current physical platform is Pentium 4 with SiS north brigde 655TX and south bridge 964,
the os is installed on single SATA hdd. Windows XP installation CD does not include
driver for this SATA controller.
Generally I know if one tries to move the Windows XP installation from one PC to other where both PCs
have different disk controllers (different in kind of interface, vendor, model) there are the best chance the boot
on new PC will fail because Windows XP is unable to load drivers needed for disk controller found on new PC.
I can imagine same problems occur while transferring Win XP from physical to virtual machine using VMware Converter Standalone.
How well does CS manage this problem?
Does the hardware configuration stage of of virtual machine creation address this question?
I can see in the CS documentation topic of disk controller selection where the type of
disk controller can be set. However merely the controller interface type SCSI, IDE, etc is addressed there.
The configuration stage would mean the Converter carries out internal changes in the destination OS installation.
Is that right?