![]() ![]() To assist in this, I wanted to run Acronis True Image (ATI) 2011 Plus Pack. I hoped that its ability to capture and restore essential drivers would produce a bootable physical installation. ![]() If the WinXP installation had been on a physical system, there would have been two ways to run ATI. ![]() I could install it into that system and then run it in WinXP or I could boot it from a USB drive and use it to capture the state of the WinXP installation when the latter was not running. Similar options also existed within the VM world. In the language of another post, both of these were internal solutions – that is, they ran within the VM. They were not external solutions, as where a Windows program of some sort would treat the entire VM as the object of a conversion procedure, comparable to the conversion of a video file from one format to another.įor present purposes, I was interested in the latter (bootable ISO/USB) approach. In part, I was curious and in part I didn’t want the hassle of installing ATI and then its Plus Pack, nor the clutter of that extra software in the WinXP installation that I was trying to capture in a drive image. In other words, I had an ATI ISO that already combined the basic ATI software as well as its Plus Pack, and I wanted the simplicity of running that ISO within the VM, to capture the state of the WinXP installation without being part of that installation – much as I would do if I used Rufus to create a bootable USB containing that ATI ISO, and then booted that USB to capture a physical Windows installation while the latter was not running.Ī previous post describes how I used a Lubuntu ISO as this sort of interloper within an Ubuntu VM, to run commands to clone and image that Ubuntu installation when it was not running. ![]()
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