<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I don't like vmware, don't ask me why, but I just don't like it.<br><br>I guess any product that needs to have more than 50 thousands versions of the same<br>thing....perhaps I hate it because of that.<br><br>Anyone for Vmware Server Enhanced Lite ++ (2 1/2 user limit).<br><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 8/11/08, Paul Lancaster <i><paul_lancaster@blueyonder.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Paul Lancaster <paul_lancaster@blueyonder.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Imaging FC7 Machine to VMware<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Saturday, 8 November, 2008, 9:59 AM<br><br><pre>If you have a paid for licence for esx then the enterprise version of<br>vmware converter will give you a live disk to boot the FC7 physical m/c,<br>and
P2V the box over the network to your esx server. I have succesfully<br>managed to P2V Server2003, XP pro and XPe <br><br>Other wise the free version can be run from the esx server and will<br>transfer over the network but will load a utility on to the PC.<br>Had to do this method for IBM x3550 based Win2003ent server, as the live<br>disk crashed on boot up.<br><br>If it fails try running without installing vmtools as part of the<br>tranfer.<br><br>Both can be downloaded from here.<br><br>http://www.vmware.com/download/<br><br>hope that helps<br><br>Paul<br><br><br>On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 12:04 +0000, Scott McGurk wrote:<br>> Hey all, im looking for a way to take an image of a linux machine<br>> (FC7) and restore that image to a VM (Vmware ESX).<br>> <br>> So far I've tried diskpart, and acronis true image, but to no avail.<br>> The biggest pain I suppose is the fact that it has to be run for a cd,<br>> since thats the only thing common
to both machines..<br>> <br>> Anybody any ideas?<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>> dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>> Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>