ashleysmith55 Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 Hi all.Hopefully you can help me. I need to convert several ghost images of older PCs into some format that can be run in either Microsoft Virtual Machine 2004 or VMware. I know that you can link virtual machine and VMware to iso CD images. That would be ideal. If there is some way to convert them into actual virtual machines, then even better.I've already tried using WinImage. It's great at creating virtual images of existing PCs, but I have images I need to convert. Any ideas? All help would be greatly appreciated.ThanksAshley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venim Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 I don't knowif that is possible.But there exists a small program from Symantec (Ghost explorer) that you can see and extract an image made from ghost..I hope that I'm not wrong and that I have helped you.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbinoRaven Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Well VMware Esx uses a product called P2V (physical to Virtual). As far as the microsoft work around it's kinda annoying, but it can be done.You use ghost to capture the snapshot of the drive to your *.gho file. Used ghost to create a bootable diskette. Get a full copy of WinISO and create a bootable CD using the ghost bootable diskette you've made. Or go to bootdisk.com and copy ghost into the disk.Next copy the *.gho file into the Bootable cd iso you made with WinISO. Make sure that ghost is on there. Now Mount the iso as your "CD" in the virtual machine and boot. Ghost the VM disk as you normally would on the VM.Cheers!Hi all.Hopefully you can help me. I need to convert several ghost images of older PCs into some format that can be run in either Microsoft Virtual Machine 2004 or VMware. I know that you can link virtual machine and VMware to iso CD images. That would be ideal. If there is some way to convert them into actual virtual machines, then even better.I've already tried using WinImage. It's great at creating virtual images of existing PCs, but I have images I need to convert. Any ideas? All help would be greatly appreciated.ThanksAshley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T D Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 (edited) A gho file is a hard disk image (like a compressed hard drive w/reg entries), how are you meant to convert it to a windows setup image? Edited June 26, 2006 by T D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 There's a simple work around. Restore the image within vmware with somethin like Live state recovery desktop which can restore a ghost image to different hardware or virtual machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbinoRaven Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Exactly.Or if the system you want to ghost is another box. You can ghostcast the server over the network.There's a simple work around. Restore the image within vmware with somethin like Live state recovery desktop which can restore a ghost image to different hardware or virtual machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 if you used sysprep on the images before you captured them and added the hdd drivers using sysprep then you can just create a large enough virtual disk and drop your image into the vm. You also need to ave compatiable HAL's though that is not as critical to the VM as it is to a real system.You can also do this in reverse, capture your vm with ghost and deply it to a rela machine. just be sure to have the ide controllers and a compatible HAL installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T D Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I'm just sayin' there's no way to put a gho to a windows source with I386, win51 etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brainstane Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Hi all.Hopefully you can help me. I need to convert several ghost images of older PCs into some format that can be run in either Microsoft Virtual Machine 2004 or VMware. I know that you can link virtual machine and VMware to iso CD images. That would be ideal. If there is some way to convert them into actual virtual machines, then even better.I've already tried using WinImage. It's great at creating virtual images of existing PCs, but I have images I need to convert. Any ideas? All help would be greatly appreciated.ThanksAshleyThere's a plugin specifically created to import ghosted images into a virtual machine. Please see this thread:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=76734 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxito Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 But there exists a small program from Symantec (Ghost explorer) that you can see and extract an image made from ghost..If I understand right the Ghost explorer can extract the GHO images?I have quite a fier partition images from my old PC, but cannot access the files! linuxito Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethanhines Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Is there a quick way to convert a bootable ISO CD/DVD to a .GHO image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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