[BBLISA] Re: RHEL and Windows simultaneously?

[Theo Van Dinter]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:04:10AM -0400, Scott R Ehrlich wrote:
> The responses thus far have been great for my inquiry.   I am not at all
> dismissing the option of VMWare.   From my experience, I've had to freshly
> install an OS within VMWare's virtual computer.   I've never used it to 
> produce a VM of an existing OS under the parent OS.

It's called P2V (Physical to Virtual).  It's relatively simple to do for
Linux -- I've migrated a lot of physical machine installs (everything
from RH 6.x to RHEL 3) to GSX (before Server) and ESX.  Windows is a
lot trickier, so much so that VMWare has a product (P2V Assistant --
http://www.vmware.com/products/p2v/) which deals with stuff for you.
Basically it copies the FS and such over to the virtual machine, then
changes the appropriate Windows bits for drivers and such.

I don't typically deal with Windows so I can't give you any details.  I played
with P2VA at the VMWorld Conference last year.  It quite neatly moved an NT4
machine around.  I have no idea if XP is supported or not though.

-- 
Theo Van Dinter, tvd at bblisa.org/felicity at kluge.net
Systems Administrator, bblisa.org/kluge.net
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