Creating New Virtual Machines

Applies To: Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1

This section describes the procedures for creating virtual machines from a virtual hard disk, a template, an existing virtual machine, a physical server (P2V conversion), or an existing VMware virtual machine (V2V conversion).

Supported Operating Systems for Virtual Machines

Supported Hardware Capabilities

How to Create a Virtual Machine from a Template

How to Create a Virtual Machine from an Existing Virtual Hard Disk

How to Create a Virtual Machine with a Blank Virtual Hard Disk

How to Clone a Virtual Machine

Configuring Hardware

How to Customize the Operating System of a Virtual Machine