In a recent article, I discussed several key features I found most appealing in Horizon 7, VMware's latest virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offering. At the top of the list was Instant Clones.

(1) See virtual machine monitor. (2) A desktop user interface for managing Xen, KVM and QEMU virtual machines. It is used to install and clone VMs and show their current status. Virtual Machine ...

I have an older laptop with a 30 GB hard drive.<BR><BR>What I would like to do is somehow image this hard drive so I can use it as a virtual machine on my Macbook (using Parallels or VBox).<BR><BR>I ...