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On 02/25/2009 11:56 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote: > > =20 >> Let's say we have a person running Windows with plenty of installed >> applications. What I would like to be able to do would be to somehow >> encapsulate that version into a VDI. >> =20 > > The way I have done this in the past is to: > > 0) Shrink the windows partition to the size it will have in the VM, > make video display driver generic VGA. > 1) Backup the windows partition using partimage or Clonezilla. > 2) Install the desired OS and VM manager > 3) Boot Ubuntu or Clonezilla in a new VM, restore the image from #1 to = the VM. > 4) Wrestle with Windows to work on the new (virtualized) hardware and > go through Windows Authentication. > =20 On 02/25/2009 02:20 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > > How to migrate existing Windows installations to VirtualBox > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows=20 Thanks guys. This is exactly what I was looking for. Not sure I'll do=20 this for an Installfest, but it is certainly something I want to=20 investigate both as an addition to my Virtualization on the Desktop=20 presentation, but possibly as a way of moving my wife to Linux. --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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