Amit k. Saha wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Maciek Kaliszewski > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey >> With linux I think it would be quite easy (Even with windows it is >> possible). I haven't move linux system to VirtualBox , but I have done >> it between >> several different hardware computers . So if there isn't custom kernel >> the only modification needed is to change Xorg.conf (May be not >> necessary in your case if your computer hasn't installed X subsystem ). >> >> > > I did face an issue with moving guest VDI which was created on a Linux > host to a Vista host. It greeted me with a BSOD and didn;t work. I > didn;t get the time to look into it, so I didn't report it. > > You mean windows guest created on linux host and then moved to windows host and BSOD on windows host or guest ? There shouldn't be a problem ,but when you deal with windows everything is possible . But James is trying to move existing hardware linux box to VirtualBox ,so I think there won't be a problem.The only difficulty I see is to properly setup networking (as the guest system will be a network server )
Regards Maciek Kaliszewski >> >> James Bensley wrote: >> >>> Hey Guys n Gals! >>> >>> New to the list and thought I'd kick off with a question to you all! >>> >>> We are looking to move some of our smaller servers performing small >>> medial tasks as virtual machines to our bigger, higher performance >>> servers. >>> >>> To start I'm going to move a Debian (Etch x86) server across to a >>> Windows 2003 x64 host. Can I image the Debian server's hard drive and >>> use the image to run in virtual box instead of installing a new Debian >>> server from scratch and setting it all up again? >>> >>> >>> I hope I haven't introduced my self as a complete tool with a stupid >>> question but hey, why break the habit ;) >>> >>> Thanks for reading listees. Regards, >>> James ;) >>> >>> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >>> Version: 3.1 >>> GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V- >>> PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++ G+ e(+++++) h--(++) r++ z++ >>> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> vbox-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
