Ghost to VM

[maxout2008]

I have few ghost images from pc's which i need to load on to a VM's - is it possible, can someone please explain how its done?

Ghost 11.5, > VMWare Workstation 6.5

Thx

[Troy_Clavell]

you may want to take a look at VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0

[msemon1]

Are your Ghost image files .gho or new file format? The newer versions of ghost I think can be run directly into the converter. For Ghost images with.gho we created a Ghost Boot disk and ghosted image into VM. After ghosting into VM we ran through converted to fix any dirver issues.

Mike

[maxout2008]

I have ghost images in .gho format. How can i ghost an image in to vm?

[jbruelasdgo · Accepted solution]

you can use a bootable Norton Ghost disk

If you do not have one, you can try to build one with BartPE

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?page_id=174 (this is known as Ultimate P2V, it shows you how to create a bootable CD, with Norton Ghost Drivers, obviously you will need your license for it)

regards

Jose

[maxout2008]

Little confused here, I have a ghost boot disk - so when i start my VM and try to boot of the ghost boot disk, its telling me no os found. What am i doing wrong.. Thx

[msemon1]

Once you create your Ghost boot disk, just connect to your Ghost server and install image just like any other computer. If you want a copy or more information on Ghost boot disk email me offline.

Mike

[maxout2008]

When i try to boot from my ghost boot disk, i get following error messaqge:

PXE-E53 no boot filename received

PXE-M0F Exiting Intel PXE rom Operating system not found

Physical machines work fine with the same boot disk and able to connect to ghost server

Thx

[RDPetruska]

Did you set the VM's boot order to boot from CD?