[CentOS] Clone physical into virtual

Scott Moseman scmoseman at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 16:34:57 UTC 2007


On 8/8/07, Timothy Selivanow <timothys at easystreet.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 10:44 -0500, Scott Moseman wrote:
> > Is there a formal, or preferred, method for importing a physical
> > CentOS machine into a VMware instance?  I know they make
> > software to move Windows machines, but I couldn't find one to
> > handle our CentOS servers.  I have done something via scp/sftp
> > in the past, which *seemed* to work, but if there's a better way
> > I'm more than interested in hearing the process.
> >
>
> You can use a free tool called "VMware Converter", available here:
> http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/
>

VMware documentation says that its only for Windows machines.

Thanks,
Scott



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