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 “Old Windows 7 system”. You might also want to change the name of the VM (opens in new tab) underneath “Virtual machine details”. Set destination typeĬlick the menu beside “Select destination type” and then select “VMware workstation or other VMware virtual machine” from the list. For our purposes, click the radio button beside “Powered on”, then click the menu beside “Select source type” and pick “This local machine” from the list. We’re running it on the machine we want to convert, but the software can also target a remote machine across your LAN – as long as you know the IP address of the computer whose setup you want to clone.
Start the conversion wizardĬlick “Convert machine” on the vCenter Converter toolbar. This needs special consideration, as we’ll explain later. In our case, we’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. You’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 (opens in new tab) onto your Windows 7 system. Fantastically, should a bug still slip through, with a VM, you can always roll back to an earlier version of your virtual hard disk file. This is how you minimise the threat of malware and other security issues, by using the more advanced security of Windows 10 (opens in new tab) (which is regularly patched). It is quite the compromise, if we do say so ourselves, but you simply create an image of Windows 7 installation and run it inside a virtual machine (VM). Allow us to introduce to you, virtualisation (opens in new tab). If only there was a way to have the old look and feel of Windows but with the resilience of today. How to run Windows on a Mac How to unlock Windows 10's secret modes The autopsy of Windows 7īut of course, this is almost a forbidden love, because Microsoft doesn't support Windows 7 anymore, which means using the actual version of it will leave you unpatched, unprotected and highly vulnerable to all sorts of malicious bugs - and there are plenty of those around these days.
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