[TriLUG] vmware physiacal disk importing

[Mark Fowle]

Have you tried:  http://pba-vm.sourceforge.net/
I have done several tests with windows and linux machines and had good
success.

Mark


On 10/19/06, Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
>
> Has anyone had success with this with Linux installations?  We have
> 3 CentOS machines (3.x and 4.x) that are prime candidates to be
> virtualized.
> I had assumed that this was either (a) impossible or (b) expensive (vmware
> sells some rather expensive tools to help).  If it could be done at a
> reasonable cost, we'd do it today.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Alan Porter wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
>
>
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