[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu under XP

[Manish Sinha]

Ritesh Sinha wrote:
> If you MUST migrate a physical machine to a VM, the way to do it (an
> annoying way) is to first use the VMWare P2V tool to convert it to a
> VM. Then use a tool to convert VMDK to virtualbox native disk format
> (google around for the tool name).
>   

Does it work properly.  AFAIK when you install, the configurations are 
made for the present hardware configuration. How are they managed in the VM?

> Not recommended unless you _really_ need to. As of now VirtualBox
> doesn't provide a direct Physical to Virtual Converter (P2V). Also,
> performance isn't as great as VMware server/VMware ESX (unscientific
> personal tests, YMMV).
>   

A fresh installation is highly recommended, but it is not apt in some 
times,when you have done lots of config tweaks in the current system. 
Probably a tool which backups the configuration can be more helpful in 
this case.

N.B: Can you please bottom post. A kind and sincere request. I don't 
mean to offend (following the mailing lists rules) BTW You reply was 
highly informative.