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Thanks for the responses. &nbsp;There was a link, at the bottom, to download the converter on PRO's URL. &nbsp;In any case. &nbsp;The next question was can this be done remotely, and the doc answered that it can be. The link to convert back is very helpful in case anything goes wrong. &nbsp;Thanks again.<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; Tony
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Thanks for the responses.  There was a link, at the bottom, to download the converter on PRO's URL.  In any case.  The next question was can this be done remotely, and the doc answered that it can be. The link to convert back is very helpful in case anything goes wrong.  Thanks again.

    Tony

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Glad to help; hope all goes well with your laptop! :)<br />
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~coolsport00
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Glad to help; hope all goes well with your laptop! :)

~coolsport00

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I want to clone my laptop to a virtual machine so I can still work while the laptop is getting some maintenance. &nbsp;Is that possible? &nbsp;I have Clonezilla and used it for cloning hard drive to hard drive, but not one machine to a virtual machine. &nbsp;If it's not possible, what other options would I have to continue working while the laptop is in the shop? <br />
The laptop OS is XP Pro SP2 and the VMWare resides on an Ubuntu OS, ver 9.05.<br />
thanks.
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I want to clone my laptop to a virtual machine so I can still work while the laptop is getting some maintenance.  Is that possible?  I have Clonezilla and used it for cloning hard drive to hard drive, but not one machine to a virtual machine.  If it's not possible, what other options would I have to continue working while the laptop is in the shop? 
The laptop OS is XP Pro SP2 and the VMWare resides on an Ubuntu OS, ver 9.05.
thanks.

Is it possible to clone a laptop to a VMWare virtual machine?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.