import VPC disk image ?

[MacVador]

Hi,

is there a way to "import" or use VPC disk image with Parallels Workstation? Very interested in the product but I don't want to loose too much time to "recreate" my virtual PC system + applications...

 

[jkwuc89]

I want to add to this request the ability to import VMWare virtual machines. I have a Windows XP VMWare VM that I've spent quite a bit of time configurating and I would like to be able to import it and use it with Parallels running on OS X.

 

[matt.hocker]

Add me to this wish list too

Part of the nice thing about migrating from OS X on PPC to OS X on Intel is being able to get rid of Virtual PC. Now if I could bring over the VPC7 disk image file from MS VPC on Mac, you'd have a sale.

Also, being able to bring over a Virtual Server file would basically eliminate the need to run all these different virtualization programs.

Here's hoping...

 

[Neuron]

You could use something like Acronis TrueImage to create an image from a running guest in VMware or VPC that could then be restored to a Parallels guest.

 

[scrollinondubs]

Acronis doesn't work

I was running Acronis True Image for my backup on my PC laptop and recently switched to OS X and Parallels. I tried restoring the Acronis image to a new parallels instance and it fails throwing some error about "unable to see boot device." I suppose this makes sense as it's different hardware and Acronis is doing a bit-for-bit restoration of the harddrive.

I would be very interested if anyone comes up with a solution for migrating a VPC image into Parallels.

sean

 

[constant]

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Other people have made this work with Acronis, and they have posted about it on these forums.
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