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We are retiring a Unixware 7.1 server that has custom applications on it. It has Raid 5 and we would like to use the machine for other things. Is there a way we can image/clone to virtual machine file and run that VM within say Virtual PC 2007 or VMware? I am not aware of anything to do this. I have downloaded VMwares converter but it only supports Linux and Windows.

Your help is appreciated.

Thank you for the link but while that link tells me of the versions of linux that can be ran in hyper V or VMware, it does not tell me how to take an existing install of SCO Unixware 7.1 with apps installed and mods on a live machine and make that entire RAID 5 installation into an image and convert that image if need be to run in VM ware. Sorry for the runon.

This is what I need.

Do you have a link to how this might be accomplished with another (Linux/Windows) operating system?

I just did this today using VMware Vconverter located here.

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone

Basically this will do LINUX and Windows. All you do is install it on the PC you wish to keep your VM's. Then while the other computer you want the image of is running, it loads a client and then creates a VM is about 15 minutes. All this is done remotely over the network with proper credentials on the "to be imaged machine". I just loaded this up into VMware's VM player and it works perfectly.

I read some of the topics in their forum, and it appears that it changes device drivers to a standard set during the process?
If this is correct, then I think that the approach should be to do a fresh install, and restore the application programs and data.

That will require a programmer to redo the 8 years of work he has done. We cannot afford that. Another option is to use Ghost to ghost the entire Raid 5 (if that will work) and convert it to a VM.