On 25/09/12 06:55, [email protected] wrote:
On Sun, September 2, 2012 7:21 pm, Ross Mitchell wrote:
I suggest that you install VirtualBox, then install your Centos 4 os
within it. * You don't risk your established data etc.
* The Centos 4 will have its own IP address, your legacy system
will be fine, of course it will have the security vulnerabilities that go
with the old OS, but these won't infect your broader systems. * by the
I have a Centos 4 machine, I'd like to try cloning it from a physical
machine to a VM on another system, I've installed Centos 6 on the new
machine, and, learning how to setup VM
how would I clone existing system across LAN to VM ?
thanks for any tips
Its probably the wrong way of doing it, but what I have done in similar
situations is to boot the old system from a liveCD
boot the VM also into a liveCD
then use DD and netcat to move an image of the disk across into the new
VM something like this.
http://digiassn.blogspot.com.au/2006/01/dd-over-netcat-for-cheap-ghost.html
It'll take a while, consider also adding a file compression tool to the
mix if you have lots of free space on the source disk (gzip with minimum
compression say) just to make sending all the zeros faster ;->
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