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

[Neal Rhodes]

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
> 
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
> > So, I get one of those off-lease desktops.
> >
> > I plan to shrink the Windows 7 partition down to 80GB, and install Centos
> > 6.X on the rest.
> >
> > Is there a reasonably simple way of getting a VirtualBox or KVM Virtual
> > Machine with a copy of this Windows 7 install in it which doesn't involve
> > reinstalling Windows 7?   Yes, I hate Windows 7 as much as the rest, but
> > occasionally have to use it, and would rather use it in a VM under Centos.
> >
> > I'm thinking that there isn't an install media for Windows provided,
> > although it looks like I can burn a recovery media.    Will that HP recovery
> > media install within a VM, or will it detect that it's not seeing "real"
> > hardware and barf?
> >
> > Neal
> >
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