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VMware to Virtualbox - Help !

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sam, 06/01/2013 - 20:46
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I'm desperatly trying to do away with VMware so that instead of dual booting I can just use Trisquel.
I have found how to do it BUT not in total.
Problem - In vmware if I go into Snapshot manager it shows Windows 7 then a circle saying 'you are here'
Now copying all the files/folders to Virtualbox Windows, runs OK but Virtualbox does NOT run the latest version of Windows.ie it is missing a couple of programs that I recently installed.
Anybody know how I can resolve this problem please.

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dim, 06/02/2013 - 04:44
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It is unclear what your trying to do.

Dual booting is where you run two operating systems side by side.

VMware is a tool to run another operating system on top of another operating system. This is virtual because the OS is contained within an image and displayed in a window while the host OS is running. There are several alternatives to VMWare such as libvert and VirtualBox.

What OS did you install in your VirtualBox Virtual Machine environment? What did you copy over exactly? It sounds like you need to install the missing programs in your new VirtualBox Virtual Machine.

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dim, 06/02/2013 - 08:57
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I run Trisquel alongside Debian (duel boot) I want to do away with Debian as an operating system and just use Trisquel.
In order to do this I need to change to Virtualbox. At present I use Vmware to run Windows 7 ( Before people rise up and condem me for using Windows a brief explaintion - for the past 20 years or more my hobby has been yacht designing and I have two cad programs to do this )

Now to the problems with the changeover.
I copied all the files/folders in the vmware folder/windows folder ie the vmdk files into the virtualbox vms folder and followed these instructions https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=52705&p=241380#p241380

This worked and I can run windows 7 in Virtualbox BUT NOT my latest version.
In other words it runs the original version and not the latest auto protect version (if that makes sense!)

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dim, 06/02/2013 - 09:17
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I'd suggest asking on the Virtual Box forums.

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