{"id":58,"date":"2007-06-12T18:53:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T00:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=111"},"modified":"2007-06-12T18:53:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T00:53:42","slug":"vmware-converter-%e2%80%93-how-sweet-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"VMware Converter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c How sweet it is!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As most of you have heard me pontificate about to no end; Virtualization is here and is changing the IT landscape. And if the reasons for migrating to a virtualized environment were not compelling enough on there own merits, the good people at VMware have made the move even easer with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/converter\/\" target=\"_blank\">windows based Converter product<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Converter, yet another free offering from VMware, is simply put \u00e2\u20ac\u201c amazing software. After you load the small (about 20M) app on your windows system you answer a few wizard like questions, specify a disk target and let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122er rip. Converter<span>  <\/span>then turns your live physical system into a ready to go VM package. Did I mention it does this LIVE, to any Win XP, 2000 or 2003 system!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In fact the blog your reading right now is hosted on a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153converted\u00e2\u20ac\u009d VM. In my case the Windows web server the blog was hosted on, a Pentium III 733,<span>  <\/span>was getting a bit long in the tooth, I loaded the converter and after about an hour of processing the system was moved over to a Linux VMware host.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you are an existing VMware user checkout, and if this whole VMware thing is a mystery to you \u00e2\u20ac\u201c go download your free copy of VM today (<a href=\"Http:\/\/www.vmware.com\" target=\"_blank\">Http:\/\/www.vmware.com<\/a>), it will change the way you think about computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you have heard me pontificate about to no end; Virtualization is here and is changing the IT landscape. And if the reasons for migrating to a virtualized environment were not compelling enough on there own merits, the good people at VMware have made the move even easer with the windows based Converter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-networking","category-linuxunix","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}