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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.<br>
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.<br>
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You will need to convert the image from a norton ghost file to a vmware
image. VMWare provides a free util aptly named "<a
href="http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/">Converter</a>" 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.<br>
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-------- Original Message --------<br>
Subject: [clue-tech] ghost / virtual machine<br>
From: Bob Meetin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bobm@dottedi.biz"><bobm@dottedi.biz></a><br>
To: CLUE tech <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:clue-tech@cluedenver.org"><clue-tech@cluedenver.org></a><br>
Date: Monday, September 15, 2008 8:00:44 PM<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:48CF134C.9090807@dottedi.biz" type="cite">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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