[TriLUG] vmware physiacal disk importing

[Christopher L Merrill]

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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