[ale] Question: Vmware -> PC

[Christopher Fowler]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 12:02 -0600, Jeb Barger wrote:
> I have a basic question...
> 
> I have a vmware linux server built and I want to bring over to a pc.
> Will it work?  Has anybody done this? Can you dd over a network?

On the target PC you'll need to boot off a linux C that has network and
ssh.  

ssh root at vmware "dd if=/dev/hda" | dd of=/dev/hda

I do this all the time when writing images to embedded devices.  I do an
nfsroot and then dd an image off the nfsroot to the flash.

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