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Which virtual disk image formats and hypervisors are supported?

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Which virtual disk image formats and hypervisors are supported?

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All of the tools — except Citrix’s — support VMware’s Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK), and except for VMware, they all support Microsoft’s Virtual Hard Disk Image Format. VMware supports some of the older Microsoft disk image formats, and some of the tools support other hypervisors such as those of Citrix or VirtualBox. Do I want just P2V features? The move from a physical to a virtual machine may not be enough for your needs. For example, you may need to bring a VM back to a physical machine or move a VM running on one host to another. Several products, such as Double-Take Move, vConverter and PlateSpin Migrate, include these additional features. Furthermore, Prowess Software’s Smart Deploy lets you start with a Windows Image File format installation DVD and directly convert it into a VMDK, which can be useful when deploying a large number of Windows 7 desktops and Windows Server 2008 machines. Before your start Make sure to clean up your machine before you start the conversion p