[ale] Is there a way of copying existing Windows partition to VM?

[Geoffrey Myers]

gcs8 wrote:
> Vbox will read vmware images so just make a image and point at it from 
> vbox, should work.

Really?  I had no idea.  That's nice to know.

> 
> On Mar 2, 2012 12:23 PM, "Calvin Harrigan" <charriglists at bellsouth.net 
> <mailto:charriglists at bellsouth.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 3/2/2012 11:56 AM, Neal Rhodes wrote:
>      > So, you would boot Acronis CD, make a Win7 image to a USB disk drive,
>      > then boot Centos, then create a new VM, give it access to the USB
>     drive,
>      > boot Acronis in the VM, and tell it to restore the backup image?
>      >
>      > I recall reading that Acronis would finagle the hardware differences
>      > when restoring backups.
>      >
>      > On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 11:36 -0500, John Pilman wrote:
>      >> I believe Acronis software has the functionality to image Windows 7
>      >> and deposit it as a virtual machine.
>      >>
>      >> ...John
>      >>
>     +1
>     Acronis will do this, I've done it several times.  The feature is called
>     universal restore.  I have not used it to restore an image that will be
>     booted in an environments different than vmware's.  It may or may
>     not work.
> 
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