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You can try PWBoot.Thanks for the hint, TheHive. That has never happened with any of the P2V conversions that we've done using vCenter Converter. Lots of errors and lots of red crosses in device manager after the VM booted. :?Д¬ouldn't you create the Virtual server, and give it a pretty big (empty) disk, and then use cloning SW (think GHOST or other more modern equivelents) to copy the disk image over to the virtual disk?In the past we've tried doing that on a couple of occasions and it didn't work out for us.

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We are already working (~ since 2 years ago) on a new accounting software and server but we need to keep old data available for historical and legal reasons for another ~ 6 years. Now we have a system whose hardware can suddenly become a huge paper-weight and whose software is stopped in time back in 2005. At the proper time we didn't opt to migrate to a new platform. Now, the software is very old and was discontinued. So we really need to either migrate the OS and software to a new hardware or convert it to virtual and add it to our VMware cluster. It has 2 PSU units but 1 of them has failed and since it is a 'white label' hardware we can't find spares. The old server is a Windows 2003 Standard (before R2). Maybe give us more background on what server it is, etc.Sure. So I honestly don't care as long as we can make the conversion and that it works properly.

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I will keep that in mind but to make it more clear, we didn't simply install vCenter agent because those guys from the accounting software are pussies and said they would drop support on us.ДЄnd they have agreed to support the product in a VM. That has almost the same impact (not to say a whole lot more impact!) than installing a small vCenter agent that has been tested by hundreds of thousands of companies for over the last 5 years.

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Indeed, when the VM is booted on the hypervisor it will immediately start uninstalling old drivers and ask for new drivers. I guess I am confused, since AFAIK, to even get the OS (you didn't say, but I'm guessing it is a windows flavor'd OS that runs the accounting SW) to run on virtual HW, you would have to install drivers and such.So wouldn't that also change the image.You know, I hadn't thought about that. So our only hope is to build a BootCD with network support that could run vCenter Converter 5.x. So we checked with them and they don't see any problem in converting the system to virtual.

We reeeeally don't want to mess with our accounting software. Worse than that, we've been told that if we find a way to install anything on this server we will void the maintenance contract.

I know that vCenter Converter Standalone can be installed on the any system that I wish to convert to virtual but somehow our credentials don't allow us to install software on this particular server (not even Windows updates). VMware used to have a BootCD for their vCenter Converter tool but unfortunately it was discontinued since version 4.3 (current is v5.x). It's been some time since I last used winbuilder and all the other tools referenced here in the forum.Д«ut I am facing a difficult task and I remembered reboot.pro could have the solution to my problem.