On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Dr. Ed Morbius <dredmorb...@gmail.com> wrote: > on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >> > Why would one chose one over the other? >> >> OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies. > > Well, yeah, besides the obvious I meant. > > I've schlepped over the *.vmwarevm trees from my OSX box (primary use: > serving as a VMWare Fusion platform) and will muck with getting them > going on VBox. > > There's ye olde "Oh, but I selected SCSI for hard drive format" issue, I > suspect that's not a big issue, though I also suspect that WinXP will > make it one. Grumble. And largely OT.
Maybe one thing. I have not been able to directly use a system that was on a partition. VMWare has a tool to convert a physical system to a virtual one. For VirtualBox, I had to boot each system (WinXP&Win7) and use disk2vhd to convert the running system to a virtual image. VB recognize /almost/ directly the VHD file (you have to use virtualbox-ose-fuse >= 4.0 to open the VHD image as filesystem). -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=2mihf2wtpor2-pqw7rphkjnefw07j84yg8...@mail.gmail.com
