{"id":261,"date":"2010-07-13T16:29:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T23:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2010-07-13T16:29:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T23:29:32","slug":"convert-a-vhd-to-vsphere-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"convert a .vhd to vsphere virtual machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every quarter the Federal Desktop Core Configuration folks release new GPOs and VHD files which you can use to build machines which they deem &#8216;secure&#8217;. You can use these machines to test FDCC products (like Qualysguard). The machine they provide should show a &#8216;passing&#8217; statement for each of the secure configuration items.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve downloaded the VHD file, you&#8217;ll need a windows machine with Virtual PC 2007 installed. Create a new VPC machine and replace the VHD file of that machine with the one you downloaded. Then open VMWare converter and select &#8220;Backup image or third-party virtual machine&#8221;. Then browse to the VPC machine you recently created (for me its &#8220;\\\\10.10.10.92\\c$\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\My Documents\\My Virtual Machines\\win7alpha\\win7alpha.vmc&#8221;). Select your vSphere host as your destination and let the conversion begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every quarter the Federal Desktop Core Configuration folks release new GPOs and VHD files which you can use to build machines which they deem &#8216;secure&#8217;. You can use these machines to test FDCC products (like Qualysguard). The machine they provide should show a &#8216;passing&#8217; statement for each of the secure configuration items. Once you&#8217;ve downloaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}