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<html><head></head><body><br><br><div id="htc_header" style="">----- Reply message -----<br>From: "Jon Schewe" <jpschewe@mtu.net><br>To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list@mn-linux.org><br>Subject: [tclug-list] Moving Windows partion to a virtual disk image?<br>Date: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:58<br><br></div><br>That's what I've usually done. I think I've also used dd and then used the VirtualBox tools to convert a raw disk image into a VDI.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Sean Waite <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swaite@sbn-services.com" target="_blank">swaite@sbn-services.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:12px">I know you can use </span></font><span style="font-size:12px">VMware vCenter Converter, and then use the drive with Virtualbox. </span></font><div>
<div class="h5"><br>The VMware converter works well with windows boxrs<br><font face="arial"><br><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">On Thursday, 29-11-2012 on 12:03 Erik Mitchell wrote:</span></font><br><blockquote style="border-left-color:rgb(34,67,127);border-left-style:solid;font-size:12px;margin:0px 0px 0px 5px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;border-width:0px 0px 0px 2px;padding:0px 0px 0px 5px">
I am planning on buying a new laptop soon. I will be getting a solid<br>
state drive right away, and am planning on installing Debian as my<br>
main OS.<br>
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I'd like to take the Windows install that's on the manufacturer's hard<br>
drive and move it to a virtual disk image for VirtualBox. Has anyone<br>
ever done this? I did a quick search and it looks like it's something<br>
you can do, but I'm curious to know if anyone has ever tried it and if<br>
there's anything I need to watch out for.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Erik<br>
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Erik K. Mitchell<br>
<a href="mailto:erik.mitchell@gmail.com" target="_blank">erik.mitchell@gmail.com</a><br>
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