#Windows 7 virtual machine download free how to#
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You can deselect any drives you donвЂ™t want or recognise, but make sure that at least the C: drive and any active drives, coloured yellow and red, remain selected. By default, it assumes that you want to include all of the drives attached to your PC in your new virtual system.

5.В Tailor your VM contentsД¬lick OK followed by Next and vCenter Converter will check if thereвЂ™s enough space on your destination drive.

#Windows 7 virtual machine download free archive#

You donвЂ™t need to dedicate an entire volume to the archive вЂ“ your VM is stored within a file, rather than requiring a bootable disk.

Click вЂњBrowseвЂ¦вЂќ below вЂњSelect a location for the virtual machineвЂќ and navigate to the location. To make your old Windows 7 system accessible on a new Windows 10 PC, put it on a removable drive. You can store your new VM file anywhere you like (as long as the location is available to the machine that will be running the Player). Initially, this will be populated using the name of your machine as set up in Windows, but for clarity you might want to set it to something such as вЂњOld Windows 7 systemвЂќ. You might also want to change the name of the VM underneath вЂњVirtual machine detailsвЂќ. Set destination typeД¬lick the menu beside вЂњSelect destination typeвЂќ and then select вЂњVMware workstation or other VMware virtual machineвЂќ from the list. For our purposes, click the radio button beside вЂњPowered onвЂќ, then click the menu beside вЂњSelect source typeвЂќ and pick вЂњThis local machineвЂќ from the list. WeвЂ™re running it on the machine we want to convert, but the software can also target a remote machine across your LAN вЂ“ as long as you know the IP address of the computer whose setup you want to clone. Start the conversion wizardД¬lick вЂњConvert machineвЂќ on the vCenter Converter toolbar. This needs special consideration, as weвЂ™ll explain later. In our case, weвЂ™re starting with a PC that has both Windows 7 and Windows 10 installed on it, but we want to virtualise only Windows 7. Next, launch the installer and decide what you want to include in your VM. YouвЂ™ll need to set up a VMware account but, like the software, this is free for personal, non-commercial use. Start by downloading vCenter Converter onto your Windows 7 system.

#Windows 7 virtual machine download free how to#

Here's how to virtualise Windows 7 in 12 steps: 1.В InstallВ vCenter Converter On top of that, virtualising your beloved Windows operating system doesnвЂ™t cost a thing, thanks to VMwareвЂ™s vCenter Converter as well as Workstation 15 Player, which are free for personal, non-commercial use.