There is a button on the main screen to upgrade to the company’s Virtualization Manager 2010 Professional, which adds the ability to create a virtual machine from plain Paragon drive image files, but Go Virtual should actually be enough for the average user. Refreshingly, the checkboxes for receiving advertising email from the company are actually unchecked by default. You’re sent there from one of the installation dialogs and the info is then e-mailed to you.
To use Go Virtual, you’ll need to get a product key and serial number from the company’s Web site. The simple dialog belies the powerful image and VM conversion capabilities offered by Go Virtual. This is nice because its a direct copy and does not require. on the Machines sidebar list in Vmware, go to settings, select the disk, map it to a drive letter on the host machine, use your favorite imaging software to copy the physical disk to the VM disk. Go Virtual is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Create a new virtual disk that is the size of the physical disk you want to copy. VMware and VirtualBox have historically offered more features and have users/fans who simply do not wish to switch. However, a program such as Paragon’s free Go Virtual, which creates them not only in Microsoft format, but in VMware and Oracle’s VirtualBox format as well, is rare and useful. Microsoft has actually integrated this ability into the latest versions of Windows, so simply creating one is no big deal.
A lot of fuss is being made these days about disk image backups being rendered for virtual machines.
