Have you tried: http://pba-vm.sourceforge.net/ I have done several tests with windows and linux machines and had good success.
Mark On 10/19/06, Christopher L Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Has anyone had success with this with Linux installations? We have 3 CentOS machines (3.x and 4.x) that are prime candidates to be virtualized. I had assumed that this was either (a) impossible or (b) expensive (vmware sells some rather expensive tools to help). If it could be done at a reasonable cost, we'd do it today. Chris Alan Porter wrote: > >> What is the simplest way to import a physical disk into a vmware >> virtual machine? I don't see any software programs out there that >> does this easily. > > > Boot your VM with Knoppix and 'dd' the disk image over the network. > > I have done this successfully to copy a Win98 partition from a laptop to > a vmware virtual machine. In that case, I actually ran Knoppix both on > the Win98 laptop and the unformatted vmware VM. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Chris Merrill | Web Performance, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://webperformance.com 919-433-1762 | 919-845-7601 Website Load Testing and Stress Testing Software & Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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