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I'd like to convert it to a VM, which i know i can do with the converter. 
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<a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx" rel="ugc">https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx</a><br />

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Now once the converter is complete. Do i just use vmware player to run the image? How does this part work? 
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Yes. Or you can add a new VM computer in Hyper-V
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> I'd like to convert it to a VM, which i know i can do with the converter.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx]


> Now once the converter is complete. Do i just use vmware player to run the image? How does this part work?

Yes. Or you can add a new VM computer in Hyper-V

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Should i use vmware player or workstation?
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Should i use vmware player or workstation?

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Come to think of it, use VirtualBox
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Why virtualbox? can i just vmware? i need to have it running all the time.
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Why virtualbox? can i just vmware? i need to have it running all the time.

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If it is an OEM XP license, you can't convert it, as the license won't be valid and the system won't activate. In such a situation it is better to just install XP mode in your Windows 7 Pro PC. That is already a VirtualPC VM os XP, and it is free. You can officially convert XP-Mode to VMware &nbsp;Workstation Player using VMware's Converter Standalone. It is relatively simple to do, XP-Mode gets imported to VMware Workstation Player and should just run. If your XP OS is not OEM, it would work the same.
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If it is an OEM XP license, you can't convert it, as the license won't be valid and the system won't activate. In such a situation it is better to just install XP mode in your Windows 7 Pro PC. That is already a VirtualPC VM os XP, and it is free. You can officially convert XP-Mode to VMware  Workstation Player using VMware's Converter Standalone. It is relatively simple to do, XP-Mode gets imported to VMware Workstation Player and should just run. If your XP OS is not OEM, it would work the same.

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Do not convert it with Virtual Computer tools.<br />
Capture the HDD via Disk2VHD
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Do not convert it with Virtual Computer tools.
Capture the HDD via Disk2VHD

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hey guys,<br />
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I have an old XP PC that i need to keep around. I'd like to convert it to a VM, which i know i can do with the converter. Now once the converter is complete. Do i just use vmware player to run the image? How does this part work?
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hey guys,

I have an old XP PC that i need to keep around. I'd like to convert it to a VM, which i know i can do with the converter. Now once the converter is complete. Do i just use vmware player to run the image? How does this part work?

Virtualize old XP PC

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.