Zinstall transfers all applications, even complex, non-standard or old apps, even if you do not have the installation CDs and don’t remember your activation codes. More later … I’m just in the process of copying the VMware VM from my iMac to a Windows machine which Windows told me will take over 8 hours (the VM is 24GB). Competitor products rely on specific lists of applications that it can transfer. This is very much a “you can’t get there from here” situation but I’m hoping Zinstall can solve my problem. Of course, I can’t use the previous version of Fusion because I’m running OS X “Yosemite” and VMware Fusion 6 won’t run on Yosemite.
I would have liked to run Migration Kit Pro inside the running Windows VM but for totally obscure reasons the latest version of Fusion (version 7) won’t run it (in fact, running the VM causes Fusion to become unresponsive after a few minutes). Zinstall also offers other migration products including an enterprise-oriented version these are well worth checking out. I’m trying to migrate from a Windows 7 virtual machine created under VMware Fusion to an Oracle VirtualBox VM.
I’m currently testing out the company’s Migration Kit Pro which is designed for complex migrations. For example, you can use WinServ to transfer your applications and server environment from Windows Server 2003 32bit to a new Windows Server 2012 64bit. You can migrate even across different Windows Server versions, including 2003, 20, 32bit and 64bit.
Zinstall WinServ migrates applications, configurations, databases, profiles, shares and data from one server to another. This version of Zinstall will be available starting July 29th, the same day that Microsoft releases Windows 10.Īnother cool migration tool from Zinstall is WinServ which will make your migration from Windows Server 2003 (now at end-of-life) a lot easier by moving everything as well as making it possible to go from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit platform:
Yep, Zinstall WinWin 10 includes a Windows 10 Pro license as well as performing a complete transfer of all programs and files to your new Windows 10 machine with no reinstalling of anything.
Ouch.īut wait, it gets better! As there’s no product upgrade path not only will your wallet be empty but your calendar will be completely full because there’s really no functional upgrade path at all! Windows 10 requires you to do a clean install so you’re going to have to find all of your installation disks and … well, it’s going to be quite a process.Īccording to my sources, Zinstall has found a way to offer a Windows10 upgrade and migration service for those unlucky users priced at the same $199 that Windows 10 itself costs. More info is available on the product page. Just run WinWin on both computers, and it will offer you to start the transfer. Windows 10 will be released on July 29 and you’re probably dreading the day because if you’re on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 SP0, or Windows 8.0 there’s no product upgrade path … you’re going to have pay full whack $119 for Home and $199 for Pro (Windows 10 is a free upgrade only for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1). Once you connect both computers to Internet (wireless or cables), you are all set nothing else is needed.