Three weeks ago I got a new work laptop with Vista. I downgraded it to XP after struggling with it for 2 days. My office VPN software wouldnt install.
However after xp install and setting up everything I still had 2 days to give my old laptop back. This is not enough time to configure all software and test it connects well.
So I installed VMWare Player on my new system and copied the whole old system to a virtual machine using VMWare Vcenter Converter Standalone. So essentially I am running my old machine in my new laptop.
I created a sharedfolder through which I am sharing files/folders between the two machines and setting up the software one by one as time permits.
The conversion process took around 2 Hours for my old system that had around 35GB of data. and copy and setup on the new system took another 2 hours.
I am running the VMWARE-old network as NAT so that it shares the host OS IP. This way I am not connecting again to VPN inside the guest system. If host is connected to VPN, guest inherits the same network.
VMWare Player is free, VMWare VCenter Converter is also free. We just need to register to vmware using our email address. Installation and the move were pretty straight forward and I did not face any issues.
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