>First, I'd expect some problems with the device drivers when you try to >restore a vmware image onto a xen virtual environment - unless they >present similar virtual hardware. Actually, your lucky on this one. Windows *always* loads an ide driver into the Critical Device Database unless you explicitly tell it not to with an installation answer file, or remove it after install. >However, for the actual copy operation, I'd recommend clonezilla-live >(http://www.clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/). Boot its iso image into a >menu system that will let you mount the image storage space via nfs, >samba, or ssh-fs, then tell it to save the whole disk. The advantage >over dd is that it knows enough about ntfs and most linux file systems >to just save the used blocks and when you restore it will let you pick >from the list of images you've saved. Yup, did the same thing recently with WinPE 2.0 and Ghost (Same internal concepts, faster then dd and ssh/cp) when moving off an ESX server into Xen 3.2. jlc