[Discuss] Windows 8.1 P2V (virtualize my new PC)

[Richard Pieri]

Bill Bogstad wrote:
> Actually, I have done this with Linux workstations with some luck.

My success rate has been, well, I didn't count but things got worse when 
SATA replaced IDE in mass-market systems. In my experience, every SATA 
controller is a weird disk controller. Some are weirder than others but 
they're all weird, to the point where I gave up trying to do image-based 
deployments to non-uniform workstations. It's less effort to do a clean 
install from USB than it is to coerce an image to work on a given piece 
of hardware.

-- 
Rich P.