Snapshotting a Windows 98 system for VmWare
 

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone can help me here. I have a very complex (ie it has many odd dependancies, custom dlls etc, mission critical 98 box (yes yes 98, mission critical, but it wasn't me) that I need to install on a more powerful VMware box as an image. However the free snapshot tool doesn't seem to work with a windows 98 machine, at least the documentation doesnt mention it, whatsoever.

Anyone done this ?

Cheers

Stuart

dunno whether p2v would do it?

I don't believe P2V supports WIndows 98... you may be better to use the image/restore method.

Edit: Just found this: VMTN Discussion Forums: restore windows 98 machine in VM ... :) :)

After reading that on VMTN I'd be tempted to just ghost it.

Or try and get the 'mission critical' app working on a supported OS.

Can you not use depends.exe & sysinternals process explorer (replaces filemon & regmon iirc) and just try and migrate it.. Cant be that hard :D

Depends if you like a challenge :)

David

A challenge it is indeed. Stupid thing is, its a small app that uses 10% of a pentium 300. So im going to virtualise it no matter. However im going to give it a go within a virtual enviroment and try and migrate it by hand, ie rebuild it. I was looking for the easy way out :)

Thnks to all and ill keep u updated on progress.

Dont you just love esx for migrating :D

Our 3x DL580 Farm are running around 60 Servers now and we can probably squeeze some more on :)

David