[ale] Mount an ISO file?

[Tim Watts]

Thanks Matt, Jason, Greg and James.

My preference would be to run it directly off the partition. I'll give it a 
try and let you know how it goes.


On Wednesday 09 April 2008 2:08 pm, Matt Kubilus wrote:
> How to run your windows partition in vmware:
>
> http://oopsilon.com/Running-a-Windows-Partition-in-VMware
>
> Enjoy.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Jason Fritcher <jkf at wolfnet.org> wrote:
> >  On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Tim Watts wrote:
> >  > Ultimately, what I'm trying to do is run the XP image that came pre-
> >  > installed
> >  > on the machine (a laptop) in a vmware-server. I don't have the CDs
> >  > so I'm
> >  > trying to figure a way install it onto the virtual disk.
> >
> >  If you want to migrate a live Windows image on the laptop into a VM,
> >  VMWare has a tool called Converter that will copy the live Windows
> >  system into a VMWare disk image and build a config file that you can
> >  use in any of the VMWare products, including server or player.
> >  Converter can be downloaded free of charge from VMWare's website. I
> >  recently used this to migrate a Windows XP install from a Thinkpad to
> >  run in VMWare Fusion on a MacBook Pro. Works brilliantly.
> >
> >  --
> >  Jason Fritcher
> >  jkf at wolfnet.org
> >
> >
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