The Vince Files

I’ve mentioned before that this site is running in a VirtualPC environment.

I’ve decided to switch to VMWare Server.  I’ll be bringing the server down so I can import my Virtual PC image into VMWare.

UPDATE: VMWare Server’s import tool failed to import my Virtual PC .vmc file.  Luckily they have a separate converter tool available available at http://www.vmware.com/download/converter/.

UPDATE: OK.  We’re back and the server is up and running.  It took me a while to get the networking figured out but everything seems to have worked out in the end.  Networking in Virtual PC seems much easier since the Virtual PC handles it all like it were a separate computer.  In VMWare, additional network adapters are added to the host.  Then you specify which adapter the guest OS connects to.

UPDATE: The hardware in my virtual machine has changed so much that Windows is asking to re-activate with Windows product activation.  After I established network connectivity, I just activated over the Internet and we’re officially, legitimately, back.