VirtualBox doesn’t offer an easy graphical utility for converting a physical machine to a virtual machine. It’ll create a copy of the running Windows system as a VHD file, and you can take that VHD file to another computer and run it in Hyper-V - the converted physical system should boot up just fine as long as you launch it in Microsoft’s own Hyper-V virtual machine software. You’ll be able to select which partitions and drives you want to include in the VHD file.

Run this tool on the Windows system you want to convert. This utility will convert a running Windows system to a VHD (virtual hard drive) file for use in Microsoft’s virtual machine products, such as the Hyper-V virtual machine tool included with professional versions of Windows 8 and 8.1. Microsoft offers a Disk2vhd tool - one of their many useful SysInternals utilities.

RELATED: How to Create and Run Virtual Machines With Hyper-V Save that virtual machine to an external hard drive and boot it up on a different computer. Click Install, and then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.The utility will then create a virtual machine from the current Windows system, modifying it so it will boot properly in a virtual machine program.

If prompted by the Security Warning window, click Run.ĥ.

If prompted by the User Account Control window, click Yes.

Pentium 166 MHz or faster processor with at least 64 MB of physical RAMĭownload and install the latest Java Virtual Machine in Internet Explorer.

Intel and 100% compatible processors are supported.

If you are using the Start screen, you will have to switch it to Desktop screen to run Java.

Note: Downloading and installing of Java will only work in Desktop mode on Windows 8.

The minimum system requirements for Java Virtual Machine are as follows: Verify the system requirements for Java Virtual Machine before installing it on your computer. Verify the system requirements for Java Virtual Machine

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