[Cialug] VSphere Converter Installer for Linux

[Matt]

Yeah, I've tried to move a Windows install between a physical machine and a VM (Virtualbox) and a physical machine with one motherboard to another with a different mb/cpu and in both cases Windows would refuse to boot.  There is some sort of driver/kernel magic that must be performed to change from one chipset to another.

Linux installs are not that picky, so long as the kernel wasn't specifically customized for one CPU instruction set and there are modules installed for the new system devices.

-- Matt (N0BOX)

> On Nov 16, 2014, at 1:36 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2014, kristau wrote:
>> 
>> I don't recall there ever being a VMware Converter for Linux. You can
>> convert Linux systems with it, but I don't believe you can install the
>> converter on Linux. If there was a linux-installable Converter ages ago, I
>> doubt it is still available.
> It was still there with 4.0.1, .. but there is nothing for 5.1.
> 
>> Your best bet may be to perform a dd dump of the hard disk from the old
>> hardware, then dd that image into a newly created VM with a virtual disk of
>> the appropriate size. The XP OS will freak out because all of this hardware
>> changed so you will need your license key to re-apply it.
> Tried that years ago, just did not work. Windows has to be 'coerced'
> before the conversion into dropping the hw specific drivers.
> 
>    Lee
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug