[AusNOG] Re Question about ESXI and importing data from a HDD

[Tim Robinson]

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

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp14683952


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Giles Pollock <glp71s at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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!).
>
> Giles
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Peter Blackford <peter at onemetric.com>wrote:
>
>> winimage can create a vmdk from a hard drive.
>>
>>
>> On 14 August 2013 00:13, Samantha Scafe <samantha at smellyblackdog.com.au>wrote:
>>
>>> Guys****
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>>> 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
>>> 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?****
>>>
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>>>
>>> Sam****
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