"ferrol aderholdt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> couldn't you just use dd?
> so do something like:
> dd /dev/sda myimage.raw bs=1M
> then use qemu-img to convert to .vmdk (virtualbox can read these):
> qemu-img convert -f raw myimage.raw -O vmdk
> then rename if qemu-img doesnt:
> mv myimage.raw myimage.vmdk
> start up virtualbox, create your machine, set the hard drive to myimage.vmdk 
> and pray
> *NOTE: as i'm not sure about the instructions above, you might want to check 
> out the man pages on them. but might
> work... worth a shot atleast :)

When doing raw copies of filesystems like this, resist the temptation
to shrink the sizes of the "containers". If this really takes too much
space, resize partitions BEFORE anything else.




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