## What’s New in Virtualization Manager?

· The updated P2V Copy/Restore Wizards to migrate a Win2K+ physical system (live or from a Paragon’s backup) to a virtual environment of one of the supported virtualization software vendors. In the latest version of the product the wizards enable to:

- Create and properly configure virtual machines according to your preferences. Depending on the selected virtualization vendor you’ve got the option to specify a version of the future virtual machine, its name, location, RAM to allocate, a disk controller, the guest OS, etc. So when the migration is over, you’ll get not only a virtual disk that contains an operating system and/or data, but a ready-to-use virtual machine.

- Convert any combination of hard disks and partitions to migrate your entire computer or certain partitions in one operation. Complex backups that contain partitions from different hard disks are supported as well.

- Employ MS VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to synchronously migrate from several hard disks, thus ensuring data consistency during online migration of a system, which seats on several partitions or hard disks. This is achieved by taking a point-in-time snapshot of the whole disk subsystem.

- When migrating from several hard disks, all their signatures will be kept intact, so you’ll get the same drive letters in a virtual environment.

· The updated P2V Adjust OS Wizard allows creation of virtual machines as well, so besides its primary function, you can now build virtual machines out of supported virtual disks or Windows Vista/7 backup images.

· The updated Connect VD to connect a virtual disk as if it’s an ordinary physical disk, thus opening up all functionality available for physical disks to virtual. You’ve now got the option to:

- Mount a virtual disk in the read-only mode to make sure no data will be changed on the virtual disk during copy or any other operation on it.

- Support for VMware ESX Server’s export format to copy/retrieve data from virtual machines of this vendor. It’s useful for offline V2V and V2P operations.

· Create VD Wizard to create an empty virtual disk or with specific data of one of the supported virtualization vendors.

· The updated P2P Adjust OS Wizard to successfully start up a Win2K+ physical system on a different hardware platform (P2P) by allowing injection of all required drivers and the other actions crucial for this type of migration. Including the third generation of Paragon’s Adaptive Restore™ technology, it now can:

- Analyze all installed drivers inside a target system to report on devices without drivers.

- Search for and install lacking drivers from the built-in Windows repository.

- Notify the user about boot critical devices without drivers (HDD/RAID controllers, etc.), automatically prompting to provide a path to a driver repository.

- Name all devices according to their model description, not some alphanumeric code, which requires additional deciphering.

- Determine and install drivers not only for boot critical devices, but for physically connected NICs as well.

· WinPE 3.0 based bootable environment to enjoy support of a wider range of hardware configurations with the option to add drivers for specific hardware on-the-fly.

· The updated Boot Corrector for WinPE that now equals the functionality of the Linux/DOS counterpart.