Importing into VMWare Workstation 6.5

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:28 PM, James Seward <jamesoff at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:10 PM, DAve <dave.list at pixelhammer.com> wrote:
> > While I have not tried it, it claims it can make a vmdk from a physical
> > server. I have used it to move virtualized FreeBSD installs from one
> vmware
> > server to another.
> >
> > http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/overview.html
>
> I can't remember why I didn't use this when I last did P2V on a
> FreeBSD box, but I ended up just creating a VM with a new vmdk of the
> correct size and then using dd over nc to copy the disk from the
> physical machine, which worked fine too. An important gotcha is if the
> host is IDE but you create your VM with SCSI disks (e.g. for ESX) and
> the disk devices change name :)


Hi JMS,

Could you kindly share the steps you followed? It looks like that's what I
have to do, as this app is commercial and I don't have that money now:-)


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