[CentOS] slightly off topic - virtual PC options

Leonardo Vilela Pinheiro leopinheiro at gmail.com
Sun Jul 23 23:03:38 UTC 2006


On 7/7/06, Sentissi, Mohamed <msentissi at rightnow.com> wrote:
>
> I used the VMWARE, and they have a migration tool.
> Does that work? You need X installed
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Jerry Geis
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 2:16 PM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] slightly off topic - virtual PC options
>
> I have a this new AMD X2 4800+ x86_64 box that works great and runs
> centos 4.3 x86_64 like a champ.
>
> I have 4 old machines running slackware, redhat 7.3 and redhat 9 and
> centos 4.3 i386.
> I would like to take the image of the disk (or something else
> equivalent) and run some kind
> of i386 emulation on the X2 box so I can run those old images when I
> need to and scrap the 4 old boxes.
>
> Heat and noise be gone!
>
> I have see Xen, qemu, user mode linux, bochs etc...
>
> Have others tried to do something like I am trying, take images from
> older machines
> and run then on NEW iron? Are there suggested steps somewhere that I
> have not found?
>
> I have tried qemu but I cant boot the image.
>
> Just wondering if I am going about this is the right fashion?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry
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The P2V (Physical to Virtual) Assistant is for Windows NT, 2000, 2003 and XP
guests only.

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Vilela
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