Virtualization Manager 2010 Personal - Usage Scenarios:
Scenario 1: Continue using your old PC’s applications - enjoy your favorite applications in a virtual environment on your new computer
When it’s time to upgrade to a new PC and operating system, you may find that some of your
favorite applications haven’t been updated yet to work with it. Using Virtualization Manager 2010,
you can make a virtual clone of your old system before migrating to a new computer. Take advantage
of an up-to-date powerful computer while still having access to favorite applications from the old
computer.
If your old computer is corrupted but you have a backup image of your old system made with
Paragon software – you can virtualize it using Virtualization Manager installed on your new PC.
Scenario 2: Safely evaluate new software
New software can be unintentionally harmful to your computer. You can easily avoid negative
system conflicts by creating a virtual clone of your current physical system using Virtualization
Manager 2010. Try new software in a safe environment and decide whether it works and is exactly
what you need before making it a permanent addition to your collection. If changes made on
virtual machine were successful you can just migrate your updated system from virtual environment
to your PC.
Scenario 3: Use virtualization for backup purposes
Create a virtual clone of your physical disk and save it on a network share – this is a good
alternative to traditional hard disk imaging. In case of a hardware crash, you can work from any
computer with your regular applications in a virtual environment. This is what traditional back up
lacks!
Scenario 4: Work with your virtual disks from one easy-to-use interface - without starting a virtual machine
You can connect a virtual disk directly to Virtualization Manager as if it’s an ordinary
physical disk making all of these operations possible:
- Migrate from one virtual machine to another (e.g. from a Microsoft Virtual PC to VMware
Workstation)
- Exchange data between your physical environment and the virtual one
- Import data from a parent virtual disk to one of its snapshots
- Clone a partition or an entire hard disk
- Migrate a Windows 7 Virtual Hard Drive
- Accomplish drive partitioning (create, format, delete, move, resize, etc.), modify partition
attributes (Active flag, Hidden flag, Volume Label, etc.), edit/view sectors and much more
Now it's no longer necessary to start a virtual machine and install additional software to do
the most of common operations with virtual disks. Virtualization Manager allows
you to work with virtual disks in the easiest and fastest way.
Scenario 5: Use different operating systems on one computer
Virtualization allows parallel use of several incompatible operating systems on one computer -
Windows®, Linux, Mac® OS X (as a host operating system).
Scenario 6: Make a system bootable on different hardware or in a virtual environment
If you need to migrate to new hardware - Virtualization Manager will make your system bootable.
The necessary drivers will be placed automatically within your operating system. If you
unsuccessfully virtualized your system with a 3rd party tool and it became unbootable - you have
the option to solve this problem as well.
