<div dir="ltr">Its been a few years since I tried this but if you can get a live Linux cd and install VirtualBox you can use dd and VBoxManage to convert the disk directly in to VMDK<br><br><a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp14683952">http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp14683952</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Giles Pollock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glp71s@gmail.com" target="_blank">glp71s@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">There is actually quite a few ways to do this, one way I've used in the past is just getting a linux livecd to boot the VM then using DD to move the disk image to the VMDK belonging to the VM. I believe VMWare converter might also work, although it has been some time since I've had to do this.<div>
<br></div><div>Another option is to use VMWare workstation which from last check can use a raw disk image instead of a vmdk, however this is rather inefficient on disk space usage.</div><div><br></div><div>Personally I'd use the livecd approach, depending on your infrastructure setup and access, you might be able to load the disk image into a suitable repository, or if its a physical disk and access to the ESXi infrastructure is a no-go, use netcat, zcat and dd to push the image across a network into the VM itself.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Drivers shouldn't be too much of an issue, just get and install VMWare tools once the image is transferred across and booting properly (dd the entire disk, not just the partitions, that way you get the boot sector and most of the time everything magically works!).</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Giles</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Peter Blackford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@onemetric.com" target="_blank">peter@onemetric.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">winimage can create a vmdk from a hard drive.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
<div><div>On 14 August 2013 00:13, Samantha Scafe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samantha@smellyblackdog.com.au" target="_blank">samantha@smellyblackdog.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-AU"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Guys<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Got a linux HDD from an installation that is required again. As we now have esxi infrastructure how does one make an esxi image from a HDD<br>I don’t know of any other then to power it up and use a convertor to import it, but before I go to that trouble is there any other way?<u></u><u></u></p>
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