Converting LiveState images into VMware Workstation virtual hard disks
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I today noticed a nice little VMware Workstation 5.5 utility that I had forgotten: the Virtual Machine Importer that comes with VMware. This nifty tools allows you to convert Symantec/Norton Ghost and LiveState (nowadays Backup Exec System Recovery) images into VMware virtual harddisk images. The reason I had forgotten about this tool is that it lives in the Common Files directory, and doesn't have its own Start menu icon in Windows. But, it is available here (if you used the default paths when installing):
C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\VMware Virtual Machine Importer\v2vapp.exe
If you use Ghost or LiveState like I do, give V2VApp a try!