Creating virtual harddrive from physical Windows 2000 server installation

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I have found lots of guides on how to create a virtual image of a win xp or newer windows, but it eludes me how I can do that with win 2000 server. Anyone have any good input here? I was hoping to end up using virtualbox.

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VMware Converter version 3 is supported for 2000. Then you may be able to convert from their format to a VirtualBox format.

I run plenty of 2000 VMware images but cannot remember how I made them. Too long ago and too many other servers later.

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Windows is a bit different, see How to migrate existing Windows installations to VirtualBox for a guide.

From memory you can use VMware's converter and VirtualBox will read VMDK files.

For Linux, if you want the easy solution, boot a live CD,

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/path/to/images/sda1.img bs=1024

Do that for every partition mounted in /etc/fstab of your machine, and then setup those images in VirtualBox.

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There is the chance that if you enter BIOS and move AHCI to ATA (I usually poke around until i find it, as all BIOS are different) that it will allow you to install the OS. After this, you can look for drivers from your motherboard's chipset manufacturer that will allow you to change it back after you have loaded your OS. Hope this helps, Good Luck.

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