Physical To Virtual Machine: Physical to virtual (P2V), also called hardware virtualization, refers to the migration of physical machines to virtual machines ( VMs ). Developers using a P2V approach transfer their physical environment into a digital one. By doing this, they use less hardware and physical space, and reap the benefits of VMs, including more flexibility because VMs can run on multiple platforms. P2V is commonly used for server virtualization . It is also popular as a way for Mac users to run Windows applications. Data migrated in P2V includes an operating system (OS), applications, programs and data from a computer's main hard drive. It's moved to a VM or a disk partition . Tools such as Micro Focus' PlateSpin> Migrate and Microsoft's vContinuum save the data gathered from the physical machine as an image, which a hypervisor reinstalls on a VM. The result is a VM with the same data, applications and system configurations as the physical...
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