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> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 September, 2012 6:55:23 AM
> Subject: [SLUG] clone system to a vm?

> 
> 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 ?


I just used the vmware converter to clone a windows 2000 physical machine onto 
a virtual box VM flawlessly. 
We needed to rescue the software running on the machine due to age, so a VM was 
the way forward.
Just had to tweak the ACPI setting in the CPU advanced config and win2k booted 
straight away.
Vmware converter is a free program that does support some linuxes. Not sure if 
you can run it from linux though.

getting an image of a hard drive is one thing, getting it to boot as a vm 
straight away, is entirely different.

dave
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