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Re: [Xen-users] freely available vmware converter like application?

To: Emre Erenoglu <erenoglu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] freely available vmware converter like application?
From: Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:33:41 +0100
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you could use dd+netcat and you cna clone anything.

start with a linux live CD on the PC where you have windows installed.
OR just attach the windows disk to a linux PC then prepare another Linux machine (your dom0) on the network a file where you will host your windows HVM virtualized system.

use dd to read the windows partition (for example /dev/hda) and with netcat you just inject the dd read bytes to your linux machine (dom0) with a netcat server listening and redirect it
into a file that will become at the end your  Windows boot image file.

I did not try it yet but I  plan to do it soon.


Rick


Emre Erenoglu ha scritto:
Hi,

I would like to convert a physical windows system (my notebook for example) to XEN HVM domU. Is it possible using some freely available tool? (just like vmware converter).

Thanks,

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Emre Erenoglu
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