On 11/15/2011 9:54 PM, Benjamin Zachary wrote:
No sysprep..
We used the personal version of Ghost8, and put it in with the ultimate boot
cd ... so booted off the UBCD w/ ghost on it, and then did a straight ghost
2 ghost copy. I would say I did this about 5-10 times in the early
virtualization days as proof of concept.
When we first started virtualizing vmware convertor was several thousand
dollars and I was tasked with finding ways around it. using a boot disk with
ghost, pre-installing physical or vmware drivers I could migrate boxes (not
live) and they worked everytime as long as I had the right drivers
pre-installed.
OK .. I can follow that, but I'm unsure how to go the other way - VM to
physical. I can pre-install the new drivers by right-clicking on the INF
file and saying install. But I am unsure how to create the ghost image
of the VM. I can't just use a UBCD to boot into it, I don't think (maybe
I'm wrong). Would I have to run Ghost interactively in the VM, and save
to a SAN location? And then make a UBCD-based Ghost boot CD, connect to
the SAN location, and restore the image that way?
I've only ever made Ghost images from a powered down machine, via boot
CD (or floppy). But it should work to make the image while Windows is
running?
I think we have Ghost v8 .. or used to ...
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Leone [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box
On 11/14/2011 10:20 PM, Benjamin Zachary wrote:
In the past years back, we would install the driver controller
(Raid/HP/Dell
etc) into the 2000/2003 vm, then ghost it from VM to physical. Usually
this got us at least into booting and then re-detected all the new
hardware , several reboots later we were okay (drivers loading,
rebooting etc). if any issues you just turn the vm back on , having
the drivers loaded doesn't matter.
Hmmm .... pre-installing disk and NIC drivers into the currently running VM
first. There's an idea .. and you didn't sysprep first?
How did you "ghost it from VM to physical"? We don't have an Enterprise
version of Ghost, or a Ghost server.
Platespin comes to mind ... for p2v and v2p ... Symantec made a
similar product in the early days I don't know if it still exists. I
think its built into Backup Exec today.
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