[dundee] Imaging FC7 Machine to VMware

[Paul Lancaster]

If you have a paid for licence for esx then the enterprise version of
vmware converter will give you a live disk to boot the FC7 physical m/c,
and P2V  the box over the network to your esx server. I have succesfully
managed to P2V Server2003, XP pro and XPe 

Other wise the free version can be run from the esx server and will
transfer over the network but will load a utility on to the PC.
Had to do this method for IBM x3550 based Win2003ent server, as the live
disk crashed on boot up.

If it fails try running without installing vmtools as part of the
tranfer.

Both can be downloaded from here.

http://www.vmware.com/download/

hope that helps

Paul


On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 12:04 +0000, Scott McGurk wrote:
> 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?
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