On 5/17/06, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Why not dd?
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] > > -- Visit my blog (hebrew) for things that (sometimes) matter: http://wp.dad-answers.com
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