When I had to do that, I simply used "ghost" (the dos version) to copy the drive to an image file(s), booted the VM machine with ghost, and opened the images there. Then I used e2resizefs to resize the "partitions" and changed small things like network drivers, and presto! boot and go.
works like a charm, both in Qemu and VMWare :) Thanks, Hetz On 5/17/06, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quoting Ira Abramov, from the post of Wed, 17 May: > to sum up, I think I'll go with the VMware server, Beta or not. indeed, because of the falafel price and the friendliness of management, I think I'll stick to the GSX/EXP/beta/server or whatever it's called now. so I'll be transfering the existing machines I have into the new consolidation server. I was thinking I'd be booting up the new VM in a minimal rescue mode from a CD image, give it an IP, and tar-over-ssh the FS tree of the old machine. run lilo and reboot. Is there a better way? I doubt I can just DD the old partitions into files and expect VMware to take it from there, can I? -- A Timeless classic Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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