Hi!
Is there always a Cold Clone CD for convert physical machine to VM? Where can i download it? Found only Converter Standalone...
Thx
Tomber
Not in the latest versions. They discontinued that CD years ago.
Hi Axel
VMware no longer maintains a Coldclone CD.
However I still have aconstruction kit to create one yourself - it requires this 2 ingredients that you must find yourself:
- a Win2003 server installation CD
- VMware Converter 3.0.3
This maybe the most convenient solution for you but it is not the best one out there because driver support for Windows 2003 maybe missing for your physical hardware.
To work around this I found a procedure that uses an uptodate Linux LiveCD that exports the source machine drives via iSCSI.
The receiving end would be a Windows VM with iSCSI support.
Advantage - this works with all Converter versions after 3.0.3
If you want to do this more than once - it is worth learning this approach.
Feel free to contact me via skype ...
Ulli
Hey Axel, not sure if you were able to solve this issue, but I was able to clone a super old baremetal Linux server using Clonezilla.
Worked like a charm. Couple issues you may or may not run into:
Good luck!
One more thing:
I had another issue with the VM booted from CloneZIlla not detecting the USB drive mounted on my own machine, most likely since CloneZilla's lack of VMware Tools prevents that abstraction from working. I was able to get the VM to see the image by transferring my image to an NFS share, and luckily CloneZilla provided an option to browse an NFS share for images.