Disk2vhd is a new freeware tool from Microsoft you can use to do a P2V on a running physical machine. You can get it from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx. It doesn’t solve HAL problems. If you run into HAL problems after using this tool, my blog post on virtual machine migration explains HAL problems and what do to about them. You may need to vhd mount your vhd and replace the HAL.
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About John Paul Cook
SQL Server MVP based in Houston, Texas. Contributing author to
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives and
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 2. John is currently on sabbatical from database consulting and is very busy as a full-time nursing student.