[clue-tech] ghost / virtual machine

[Patrick H.]

What youre talking about may be possible. If the PC with the failing 
drive was running windows, then no, youre stuck. Windows does not like 
having its hardware changed and will freak out when you load it into a VM.
Linux on the other hand will handle this fairly nicely. I dual-boot my 
laptop, but I also have the ability to boot my linux partition into a VM 
while windows is running.

You will need to convert the image from a norton ghost file to a vmware 
image. VMWare provides a free util aptly named "Converter 
<http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/>" which claims to be able to 
do this. Once its up and running, you'll probably need to change your 
kernel around a bit to support the hardware that VMWare emulates 
(depending on your distro and how its kernel was built if you didnt 
build it). It should start up in a fairly broken, but working state to 
where you can fix it.


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Subject: [clue-tech] ghost / virtual machine
From: Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz>
To: CLUE tech <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
Date: Monday, September 15, 2008 8:00:44 PM
> I have a drive which may be failing on my 'other' pc, so after 
> stripping off anything everything no longer needed I was able to ghost 
> it into 2 small files of about 4 1/2 GB total.  As just about 
> everything else is possible with the VMware server should I be able to 
> restore a virtual machine with the ghost image?  Any tricks to this?
>


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