Using Open Source to Virtualize Ancient PCs

Posted by thevarguy2 on Aug 16, 2012 8:20 AM EDT
The VAR Guy; By Christopher Tozzi
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If you’re like me, you have an excessive number of old PCs lying in your basement or in a storage room. Time to throw those old PCs in the recycling bin? But what if you can’t bear the thought of saying goodbye to those machines forever? Fret not: Using a few open-source tools, you can immortalize those retired PCs as virtual machines without having to hold on to the actual hardware. Here's how.

If you’re like me, you have an excessive number of old PCs lying in your basement or in a storage room. Time to throw those old PCs in the recycling bin? But what if you can’t bear the thought of saying goodbye to those machines forever? Fret not: Using a few open-source tools, you can immortalize those retired PCs as virtual machines without having to hold on to the actual hardware. Here's how.

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