Mount Disc Image to Virtual Machine

[Euchrestalin]

I have a client who is still running Windows XP because he has a custom piece of software installed on that PC which is not compatible with any newer operating systems. To complicate matters, the client no longer has any installation media to reinstall the program, so the current installation is it. Would it be possible to image the entire system and transfer it to a virtual machine?

 

[MustISO]

You could use the VMware converter to convert the physical machine to a virtual machine and run that from VMware workstation on Windows or use VMPlayer to load it. I've done that a few times with old XP installs (back in the day) so that I could use them if needed for programs that only ran on those systems.

 

[Ketchup]

Yeah, vmware converter is the best (and possibly only) way to do what you are wanting. Of course, depending on the program and it's Windows integration, it could take nothing more than a folder copy to get it to run on an XP virtual machine.