What PN Did TodayDesire to move Justin's Windows 7 laptop into a virtual machine on his Windows 8 desktop
Realize that VMWare Workstation is required in order to do this
Curse at price of VMWare Workstation
Remember that VMWare Fusion can do this on Mac
Discover that VMDK files can subsequently be imported into Virtualbox
Let's do this!
Fire up VMWare Fusion on Mac
Install VMWare migration assistant on Windows 7 laptop
Attempt to create image of laptop on Mac
Fail due to stupid file sharing rules between Windows and Mac
Curse vehemently
Fiddle with SMB file sharing settings repeatedly
Attempt to create image again
Finally succeed
Discover that disk image is split up into 118 different VMDK files
Curse vehemently
G...

What PN Did TodayDesire to move Justin's Windows 7 laptop into a virtual machine on his Windows 8 desktop
Realize that VMWare Workstation is required in order to do this
Curse at price of VMWare Workstation
Remember that VMWare Fusion can do this on Mac
Discover that VMDK files can subsequently be imported into Virtualbox
Let's do this!
Fire up VMWare Fusion on Mac
Install VMWare migration assistant on Windows 7 laptop
Attempt to create image of laptop on Mac
Fail due to stupid file sharing rules between Windows and Mac
Curse vehemently
Fiddle with SMB file sharing settings repeatedly
Attempt to create image again
Finally succeed
Discover that disk image is split up into 118 different VMDK files
Curse vehemently
Google various ways to merge them
Attempt to merge VMDK files using Terminal command
Fail repeatedly due to poor UNIX skills
Brush up on UNIX
Attempt to merge VMDK files again
Get much closer this time
Google error code
Hack one of the the VMDK files
Attempt to merge VMDK files again
Finally succeed
Transfer single VMDK file to Windows 8 desktop
Create Windows 7 machine in Virtualbox, using VMDK file
Attempt to boot into it
Boot fails, with obscure error message
Curse vehemently
Google error code
Discover that it's probably due to the HDD controller settings
Remove virtual SATA controller and re-import VMDK under virtual IDE controller
Attempt to boot into virtual machine again
Finally succeed
Get bombarded with error messages
Remove conflicting VMWare drivers
Reboot
Remove conflicting DisplayLink drivers
Reboot
Remove conflicting nVidia drivers
Reboot
Remove conflicting Intel drivers
Reboot
Remove conflicting Dell drivers
Reboot
Install Virtualbox guest drivers
Reboot
Finally have a mostly-functional copy of Windows 7 laptop on Windows 8 desktop

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Realize that none of that was worth the effort