[ale] Is there a way of copying existing Windows partition to VM?

[Neal Rhodes]

Thanks.   Given the comments on that page, it sounds like something
you'd best try the first week when you don't mind blowing away the whole
schmutz. 

Now, granted I'm running virtualbox 2.14 on the existing server, so
maybe I'm missing some later capabilities.   Cloning an existing
physical partition in Vbox is done...how?  

Neal 

On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 11:34 -0500, James Sumners wrote: 

> I think the best you could do would be to access the physical disk
> from the VM[1] and clone it to another virtual disk.
> 
> [1] -- http://www.sysprobs.com/access-physical-disk-virtualbox-desktop-virtualization-software
> 
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:29, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
> > So, I get one of those off-lease desktops.
> >
> > I plan to shrink the Windows 7 partition down to 80GB, and install Centos
> > 6.X on the rest.
> >
> > Is there a reasonably simple way of getting a VirtualBox or KVM Virtual
> > Machine with a copy of this Windows 7 install in it which doesn't involve
> > reinstalling Windows 7?   Yes, I hate Windows 7 as much as the rest, but
> > occasionally have to use it, and would rather use it in a VM under Centos.
> >
> > I'm thinking that there isn't an install media for Windows provided,
> > although it looks like I can burn a recovery media.    Will that HP recovery
> > media install within a VM, or will it detect that it's not seeing "real"
> > hardware and barf?
> >
> > Neal
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