The job to be done is:
> The job is to convert the Windows XP from physical to virtual machine.
So I wonder how "treating the VM as physical source" can help. It is already physical. It is already the source.
Why to treat a source as a source? Why to treat physical one as physical one?
All what we seek is to convert the physical Windows XP to virtual with Fusion as hypervisor - more details in thread's initial post.
Anyhow you are right, the available version of True Image is 2009 and is not supported by Converter Standalone.
So we can't use it in our plan to generate the source .tib file.
However also the version of VMWare Fusion we have got is also not supported by Converter Standalone.
We have got 7.x, the Converter can speak to Fusion up to 6.x - this can be read in user manual, this was confirmed
also in CS GUI, the Select Destination stage.
Hence our conclusion, the aimed conversion is not possible by using VMWare products. Is this right?
Next possibility would be to convert the running physical Windows XP - hot conversion.
But it introduces the stage of synchronization , maybe more additional steps (I am the newbie) and as every additional element
in the system it increases the probability of error occurrence.