[TriLUG] vmware physiacal disk importing

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

dd also works really well :).

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Alan Porter
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] vmware physiacal disk importing


> 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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