VMware releases new Converter software
Found on CNet News on Sunday, 28 January 2007
VMware on Monday released version 3 of Converter, its application to move software from ordinary physical computers onto virtual machines. The new version of Converter permits the process to be automated so many servers can be converted at once, lets customers clone a machine's configuration as it runs, and understands Microsoft's virtual-machine storage format so those virtual machines can be imported as well.
A new toy to play with. Although you can migrate XEN images to VMware quite easily, pushing a Windows into a virtual machine can be really tricky; but once you figured out how to mount image partitions and fix bluescreens it's not that scary anymore.