[dundee] Imaging FC7 Machine to VMware

[gordon dunlop]

2008/11/6 Scott McGurk <mcgurkorama at googlemail.com>:
> Hey all, im looking for a way to take an image of a linux machine (FC7) and
> restore that image to a VM (Vmware ESX).
>
> So far I've tried diskpart, and acronis true image, but to no avail. The
> biggest pain I suppose is the fact that it has to be run for a cd, since
> thats the only thing common to both machines..
>
> Anybody any ideas?
>
If you can save your Linux image as an iso image, you can convert it
to a VMWare virtual machine using qemu.

$ qemu-img convert fedora7test.img -O vmdk fedora7test.vmdk

Gordon


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