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![]() (My version of Acronis included the Plus Pack. tib files made with Acronis True Image Home 2011. Convert a Backup Image. I could try to convert a backup image of a physical Windows installation to a VM.But since those VMs expired after just a few months, that approach did not seem ideal for my goal of setting up VMs that I could use long-term. Preconfigured VM.I could download and run a preconfigured Windows VM from Microsoft.But I did not want to have to recreate, from scratch, a heavily tweaked Windows 7 installation of 50GB or more. Setting up new Windows installations would be relatively easy in that sort of case, where the goal was to create the simplest possible installation. I had recently done this with a copy of Windows XP, for purposes of virtualizing various Windows programs. Start from Scratch.I could install Windows from scratch inside the VM.Converting a Large Windows 7 TIB to VHD to VirtualBox VM.A Minimal Windows 7 Ultimate 圆4 Upgrade VM from Scratch.Converting Various Windows XP Backup Images (.tib). ![]() Converting a Simple Windows XP Physical Installation.Virtualize a Physical Windows Installation.I wondered which one(s) I could and should run in that VM, and which one(s) I might want to run in other VMs at some point. I already had some Windows installations, backups, and CDs. As part of that system, I wanted to run Windows in a virtual machine (VM) in VirtualBox. As described in another post, I was transitioning to a Linux system.
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