Randy's Executive Physical to Virtual Cheat Sheet

[Randall20111014]

Download http://www.sysresccd.org and make a bootable CD or USB disk with it.

SRC = source system and DST = destination system

SRC: Boot system to be imaged up from rescue ISO

SRC: Run `wizard` then `gparted` to obtain device name and parameters of disk to be     imaged, exit terminal, and logout of window manager.

DST: Share a disk or folder //192.168.0.12/D

SRC: Ran `mkdir /mnt/D; mount -t cifs -o username=ken     //192.168.0.12/D /mnt/D` entered Ken's password when prompted

SRC: Ran `dd bs=512k if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/D/sda.dd`

70GB disk took 36 hours with bs=512, using bs=512k was over 10 times     faster

You can run the DD image directly with vmware by manually creating the vmdk file, see enclosed sample

Basic desktop virtualization is still free by downloading the vmware     player product.

[continuum]

ok - this looks like a very shortened version of the first part of a set of P2V instructions
the tricky part - adjusting the drivers is missing

anyway - thank you
maybe it is useful for some one