The process is quick and safe, eliminating any chances of data corruption or loss thanks to VSS snapshots. Boot up StarWind V2V Converter on your physical machine, choose the desired physical source, opt for Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure (the cloud of your choice) and press convert. You also have the ability to convert your physical volumes, disks, or entire physical machines into instances in the public cloud without any intermediary steps. Data consistency is preserved throughout the migration. Simply start StarWind V2V Converter on a physical machine and convert it into a virtual one located on a remote server. This format works for both VMware and VirtualBox.
I have only used VMware vCenter Converter with good results. It allows converting physical disks or volumes into a variety of formats: VHD/VHDX, VMDK, QCOW, and IMG/RAW. In this video, I will show you how to convert an ISO file to VMDK file format. Add a comment 12 Answers Sorted by: 12 You could use VMware vCenter Converter (free) or Paragon Go Virtua l (free), both applications will convert your existing physical machines in to virtual machines. StarWind V2V Converter enables the conversion of a physical machine into a virtual one that resides on a Hyper-V, ESXi, Xen Project, or another industry-standard hypervisor server. StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) OEM.
