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clone old windows 2000 server

Posted: 23. Jan 2009, 10:49
by herrmeier
Hallo I have another task to do.
I'm trying to clone a windows 2000 server with navision into a virtual machine.
I have all needed windows licenses.
Any tips where to look for a howto.
A search with google didn't get me any further yet.
Possibly the wrong search terms.

I was thinking to copy the whole server into a virtual machine with
dd.
1. mbr
2. dd each partition

Thanks already

Yours

Hans

Posted: 24. Jan 2009, 15:59
by Sasquatch
If you want to run a physical install to a VM, you might want to check the VMWare converter. That allows you to convert a physical install to a VMDK image, which you can then use in VB.

If it's just an already existing VM you need to clone, you can use the vboxmanage clonehd command.