In this example, I converted my physical computer that is having two Operating Systems (Windows 7 and Windows XP). Since VirtualBox supports VHD file format natively, we do not need to convert the VHD to VDI in this case.

Once it has been converted to VHD format, we can use it with VirtualBox which can run on any OS like Linux or macOS. Migrating a working physical Windows computer to the VirtualBox platform is very easy in this way. We can’t use it remotely to convert a network-connected computer/server. Also, the tool should be installed locally on the computer to convert it.

disk2vhd tool does work on Microsoft Windows Operating Systems only. Let us discuss the possible errors and how to solve them with Microsofts’s disk2vhd. Later, found a few solutions to make it work. This VHD file can be converted to other several virtual disk formats or attached to virtualization software like Hyper-V and VirtualBox.Įven though I successfully converted a physical machine to a virtual one by using the disk2vhd tool, it gave me a few errors when I tried to boot the virtual machine from Oracle VirtualBox. It can output the virtual hard disk in VHD format. disk2vhd is an excellent virtual hard disk tool to clone the physical disk partitions of a computer (Physical or virtual). In this guide, we will learn more about how to do a VirtualBox P2V with a Microsoft utility called disk2vhd. Earlier we published a guide about VirtualBox P2V in Windows 10/11 by VMware converter.

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