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Ever wanted to clone a windows machine, and run it as a VM? Well, Disk2vhd<\/a> is the answer.<\/p>\n

“Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).”<\/p>\n

In order simplify my home office, I made a snapshot of one of my Windows machines, and now run it on my Mac using VirtualBox. Saves physical space, and keeps me from having to use that Dell I hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever wanted to clone a windows machine, and run it as a VM? 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