Cloning a Physical Win XP/98 machine to run on a VM (P2V)

[KrAzYY]

Hi.

I have some industrial machines/cnc that have there one PC with all the software that the machines/cnc needs to work. Some PC's have win xp others have win 98.

So i cant upgrade to a newer version of windows because the software are not compatible with newer versions of windows and even if wase compatible the configuration processes are complicated., in some cases only technicians from the manufactor are able to config the PC to work with the machine/CNC.

I allready have done one machine and its working fine but on the 2nd machine i have encouter a issue.

Using StarWind V2V Converter but no success. During the migration coming to 26% it gives me a error "error read file". Looking to the log file, it apear the this message.
"4/19 9:28:58.965 4f98 Facility ???WARNING: P2V::getBuffer: ReadFile - 23. Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)"

Any solucion?

[yaroslav (staff)]

Welcome to StarWind Forum. P2V does not work for 32bit systems. It also does not support Win 98 and XP. See more at https://www.starwindsoftware.com/v2v-he ... tions.html.
As a workaround, can you try disk to VHD (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysin ... s/disk2vhd)?

More readout
https://community.spiceworks.com/t/is-t ... m/314937/2
https://www.techguy.org/threads/convert ... 9.1222687/
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 9ca1c45e74

Hope it helps.

[NadiaEira]

Windows 98 and XP are also unsupported.

[yaroslav (staff)]

Yup. See if older versions of disk2VHD can do magic.

[ColeHarry]

I have already completed one machine and it is working fine, but I have encountered an issue with the second one.

[yaroslav (staff)]

If the conversion runs -- the issue is not the converter. You can encounter issue like that with any other software that does cross-hypervisor migrations.
The software simply remaps data to a virtual disk. The fact that the VM is not starting might be due to drivers or VM settings.