Convert Virtual PC Win95, 98,NT, ME to Parallels

[boltthecolt]

Hi,

I have Virtual PC VMs for all Windows OS'es. I wish to migrate them all to Parallels. This works for all OSes from Win2K and up. However Transporter does not support the earlier OS'es.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can easily migrate them? I spent a lot of time on building them up in Virtual PC and I don't want to do that again. I need them all for support and development reasons.

Transporter can migrate the volumes as data volumes. Is there an easy way to make them bootable again. I don't really want to install the OSes again as patching them up is really painful.

Are there any plans to support this in future versions of Parallels? I could wait if something was on the horizon.

Any and all help greatly appreciated.

thanks

Bolt

 

[Ken Cunningham]

You might have luck using 'g4u' from http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/. This is freeware, and I was able to successfully migrate a real Win98 machine using this, as per my recent post.

If Virtual PC can see the hard disk you're interested in copying, but you can make VPC actually boot from the CD image of g4u instead, it should work. In Parallels, this involves appropriately setting the "boot from" order...I assume VPC does something similar.