


Microsoft Sysinsternals provides Disk2vhd which converts a physical system into a VHD. Microsoft Hyper-V - Only supports Windows virtualization.It’s able to convert local and remote physical machines without any downtime. VMware - Supports virtualization of both Windows and Linux with a tool called vCenter Converter.Most common virtual machine programs offer some kind of virtualization tool, also called a physical-to-virtual tool (P2V): You can boot a virtual disk on “hosted” virtual machine programs, or even directly on server’s hardware using “bare metal” hypervisors. The process will basically create a complete copy of your physical machine’s OS to be used by a host. Virtualization of a physical machine is the process that converts a physical operating system (OS) partition into a virtual hard drive (VHD).
