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[ale] Is there a way of copying existing Windows partition to VM?
- Subject: [ale] Is there a way of copying existing Windows partition to VM?
- From: charriglists at bellsouth.net (Calvin Harrigan)
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:21:37 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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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.