How to convert a physical PC into a Virtual Machine

hi guys today I'm going to show you how to convert any physical PC with a copy of Windows on it into a virtual copy of that system now this is called dis devii HD or p2v physical to virtual now it's a really simple process guys you just go over to their website so it's a sysinternals dis to be HD so disc 2 v HD top result you'll see it the less they're from TechNet go ahead follow the link download it from here version 2.0 1 it's quite an old piece of software once it's downloaded just run it extract the file so just extract somewhere you know it's gonna go to downloads done let's go ahead and open our downloads there it is and then within that we will then have the executable application so if we double click on this what its gonna do is it's going to launch the software that allows you to create a virtual image VHDX file or VHD file from your actual computer so the reason this would be important is if your machine is showing its age you don't really want to reinstall the operating system but you might lose the applications or some of the data or you might not be confident enough to kind of do it yourself this is a much simpler and easier way that allows you to create an image effectively a snapshot using the Microsoft writer Shadow Copy Service and then obviously you can import it into hyper-v or VMware parallels VirtualBox any virtualization software effectively so what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you this now so if we just drop down this box here you'll see the volumes that you can snapshot effectively now uncheck the actual volumes that store data and just backup windows which will be seen in the hidden volume partition for recovery system recovery and what we want to do before you do this just make sure that your writers are actually in a stable State okay so you right click on command prompt where as administrator we're gonna go to VSS admin and we do list writers okay so what this does is it checks the writers of the system as long as they're all stable you should be fine it'll create a snapshot fine and you'll be able to virtualize your operating systems this applies to any server any client computer anything you want to virtualize effectively from a physical machine so as you can see there you know no air no air no error let's scroll up to the top here no error all the way at the top you can see there's no errors there at all which is good so that means that the snapshot service will run correctly when we try and actually create a snapshot with disk to be HD so let's go ahead and click create what that's gonna do saver VHDX file which we can import into hyper-v to the desktop so let's go create what I'm gonna do is let that run through that I'll probably take half an hour to an hour depending on how large your volume is I'm gonna see on an SSD here so if we right click task manager performance and then go down to disc two you'll see that it's on an 850 Pro and this is a 500 Meg read and write drive so it should be able to do some pretty good speeds and and snapshot that volume pretty quickly for you on the desktop you'll see that it starts to create that VHDX file which we can then import into hyper-v afterwards so what I'll do is I'll place a link in the description box below for this product a disc the VHD software and just to clarify what this is doing right now is actually snapshotting and copying the volume of my actual physical computer here that I've got in in the office as you can see it's a Windows 10 computer and all the applications all of the data that's stored on this machine will then be copied to a VHDX file on the desktop and from there we can then obviously back it up or run it in a hype of the environment or a virtualized environment so the idea is you can keep the machine running without having to sacrifice the hardware you can actually upgrade the hardware to any computer you like so in this case an i7 16 gig of ram and SSD obviously that's an upgrade from potentially what could be I don't know Pentium 4 in some cases and 256 Meg of RAM so that you get the idea and that's why you can do this and why it's quite in business the disk export to VHD completed successfully so what we can do is now close this volume down and obviously you can see on the desktop here we have this Corsair volume now if we look at the size of this it'll show that it's 85 gig now what that means is that is everything contained within a file a compressed file that you can import into a virtualization software so it's a hyper vaca to a hypervisor effectively okay so now we've done all that we've got the VHDX file on the desktop let's go ahead and open hyper-v manager now this is the same principle on a server operating system as it is to Windows 10 Pro go ahead and create your new virtual machine and then just go through and cut what it wants I'm going to call it Windows 10 Pro P to be physical to virtual ok that's how it looks in theory that's what we're doing okay generation 1 next I'm gonna give it 4 9 6 gig of ram dynamic memories fine use the external switch next and then finally we're going to use an existing virtual hard disk now it's browse to on the desktop there it is corsair open that click finish and then the last thing we want to do is just right click settings and give it all 8 cores in this instance of the i7 processor ok so if we now go ahead and double click this to start this we're going to minimize the hubba theme manager down go ahead and click the start button you'll see it booting into itself in this instance but in any other environment this would be you physically creating a virtual machine out of a server that was maybe dying or dead on the hardwood that was running on but now is running you know perfectly so as you can see I'll log in to this own password and then on the desktop there we go exactly the same as the desktop in the background you can see that as the p2v folder all of my icons the software this is an exact replication of the machine in the background here ok so that's pretty much it guys you've gone ahead and created a virtual machine from a physical machine and that's p2v that is dis to VHD i hope you enjoyed it guys check the link in the description box below check my facebook page if you enjoyed the video as well and as always I'll see you next time some more IT tutorials see you later

Channel: Jake Billing

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Id: Hl7Dkb6Ajvo

Length: 6min 31sec (391 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 28 2016