VMWare Convertor

Having a look at the VMWare converter software today, pretty nifty to find that the newest version allows me to image my still running server.

I've been talking to one of our business contacts this morning regarding shifting a number of our servers over on to their enterprise VMWare system. For those systems that are tricky to rebuild directly, the converter now allows us to do direct copies.

There are two versions, the normal one which you can download for free here, and an enterprise variant. If you have an enterprise license for VMware, you get the big one for free as well.

The downside: for the moment, only Windows Machines can be cloned.

• Windows XP Professional
• Windows 2003 Server
• Windows 2000 Professional
• Windows 2000 Server
• Windows NT SP4+ (IE5 or higher required)

Thou for something thats cost me $0 to try at the moment, I'm not really complaining.

Bonus: It also allows you to convert from other virtual machine images.