Cool virtualizing tool
- Thread starter Bozo
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Thanks for the tip. I just installed VMware ESXi on a test station and tested installing different OS's and making snapshots, etc. I was going to test conversion functionality tomorrow.
VMWare has a tool for this already - http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ but i'd be happy to try both.
For my requirements I need to be able to convert existing windows and linux machines into virtual machines, so I think the VMWare solution is likely to be a better fit if we do continue to use ESXi.
It's interesting that these images can be mounted within windows, reminds me a lot of a mac .dmg file.
VMWare has a tool for this already - http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ but i'd be happy to try both.
For my requirements I need to be able to convert existing windows and linux machines into virtual machines, so I think the VMWare solution is likely to be a better fit if we do continue to use ESXi.
It's interesting that these images can be mounted within windows, reminds me a lot of a mac .dmg file.
Just downloading the new vCenter converter now...is anyone else amazed that such functionality causes the installer to be 100MB+?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
There's stuff all over the Windows 7 training materials about .VHDs. The Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 installation process uses .VHD in place of .WIM files and the Windows Deployment Service in Server 2008 R2 can deploy .VHDs as readily as .WIM files for supported OSes.
That's only a big deal if you're planning to do deployments that way, but it's nice that they collapsed a whole bunch of functionality into a single format. It borders on elegant, which is pretty damned remarkable coming from Microsoft.
That's only a big deal if you're planning to do deployments that way, but it's nice that they collapsed a whole bunch of functionality into a single format. It borders on elegant, which is pretty damned remarkable coming from Microsoft.
Bozo
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I tryed the VMware converter on a 'live' system. It would have taken a very looooong time.
I found it faster to make a backup of the system with Acronis, then do the conversion with VMWare converter.
Maybe this is faster, I hope
Howell
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We (but not I) have used Vconverter in the past.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Yes. but make sure you have a Gigabit NIC. That's really the only hardware compatibility issue I've run into.
Stereodude
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That's certainly a new type of spam.
timwhit
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I thought about deleting it, but I couldn't figure out if it was truly spam or not.
timwhit
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I removed the link for the signature. Now it's not spam!
Stereodude
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Some spammy looking site. I don't have the link in my cache on this computer.
timwhit
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I don't have it either, but they were selling something and it was not in English.
Fushigi
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It was a .it domain but I never went to it.
Stereodude
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Here's the site: r4-ds-carta.it
Howell
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I'm not sure. The sig is still a link that works.
Stereodude
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He must have changed it back. Time to re-edit, and I think it's clear he's a spammer now.
timwhit
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I removed it completely now. We'll see what happens I suppose. I guess we could ban him.
Stereodude
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Let just see what develops. 