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4 Replies Last post: May 7, 2009 7:45 AM by wila  

convert a physical machine under linux to virtual posted: May 7, 2009 6:47 AM

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baba22
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May 7, 2009

I need to convert physical machine under Fedora core 5 to virtual machine. Is there any vm tool to do it?

Did someone already do it? I don't use graphical interface.

Thank you for your help

Re: convert a physical machine under linux to virtual

1. May 7, 2009 7:17 AM in response to: baba22
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Troy Clavell
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Oct 12, 2007
You may try VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0 it does support the conversion of some flavors of Linux, but Fedora is not listed.

Re: convert a physical machine under linux to virtual

2. May 7, 2009 7:32 AM in response to: Troy Clavell
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baba22
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May 7, 2009

Thank you troy... I will try it but I need to know where I can find the list of flavors that I can convert.

Could you give me a link. I try to find it in the wmware site but I don't see anything.

Baba

Re: convert a physical machine under linux to virtual

3. May 7, 2009 7:34 AM in response to: baba22
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Troy Clavell
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You can find the supported platforms in the release notes

http://www.vmware.com/support/converter/doc/releasenotes_conv40.html#platf

Good Luck!


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Re: convert a physical machine under linux to virtual

4. May 7, 2009 7:45 AM in response to: baba22
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wila
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Jun 27, 2006
Hi,

Well and if that doesn't work for you, then check out this article on how-to migrate over your machine using rsync How to convert a phycial Red Hat Linux 7.1 to a virual machine - not supported by VMWare converter?


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