[Cialug] P2v Vmware Server

Corey Chandler lists at sequestered.net
Thu Feb 25 13:33:31 CST 2010


On 2/25/10 1:15 PM, Josh More wrote:
> I just shutdown the server and use DD to move the drive data to a VM.  It's not pretty, but it works well on OSs that aren't officially supported (like SCO OpenServer).
>
Beat me to it!  I usually down the original box, throw it into single 
user mode and start up networking services, fire up the VM with a boot 
disk of some form, size the partitions to match, then pipe dd over 
netcat on both sides.
Boom, done.

-- Corey / KB1JWQ


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