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

[gcs8]

Vbox will read vmware images so just make a image and point at it from
vbox, should work.
On Mar 2, 2012 12:23 PM, "Calvin Harrigan" <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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