[TriLUG] vmware physiacal disk importing

[Alan Porter]

> What is the simplest way to import a physical disk into a vmware
> virtual machine?  I don't see any software programs out there that
> does this easily.

Boot your VM with Knoppix and 'dd' the disk image over the network.

I have done this successfully to copy a Win98 partition from a laptop to 
a vmware virtual machine.  In that case, I actually ran Knoppix both on 
the Win98 laptop and the unformatted vmware VM.


Alan



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