Ritesh Sinha wrote:
This method employs a tool called VMware P2V. The resulting VMDK file works well on VMWare Server. However converting from VMDK to VDI takes a bit of work and involves using qemu to first convert the VMDK to RAW then using VDI tool to convert to VDI. cf : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/HowTo/Switching_From_VMWare_To_VirtualBox:_.vmdk_To_.vdi_Using_Qemu_+_VdiToolLinux is surprisingly robust when it comes to moving across various hw configurations. A windows XP box will BSOD quickly whereas for a linux machine the worst case is a single user boot. Excellent! Will surely give it a try. Nice to know that Linux can tolerate it. I have never tried making an image and trying it on other hardware configs as I thought that it is not possible/feasible. Sorry about that. I use GMail extensively and it has no bottom posting functionality. I would appreciate some tips on this (except some GreaseMonkey script, which is my last option). Mutt acts weird on my system and insists on re-downloading the IMAP headers every time I start. My bad experience with mail client: Well, I use Thunderbird and it too takes a long time for login,checking server capabilities and downloading headers. Sometimes I feel as I would sleep. If I create a label with filter to redirect mail with *Archive It* option in Gmail, it is interpreted as a folder in mail client. To add insult to injury, Thunderbird just fetches mail for the Inbox and not for mails that have been archived and set the label. I have to click on those folder icons to fetch the mail. I guess no mail client is perfect. Hope Mutt works better in this case. In Gmail, I simply goto last line using Ctrl+End and then type my reply over there, but is time consuming in web based clients. |
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