On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:40 PM, James Seward <james...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhia...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > For those who are running FreeBSD inside VMWare, I have a FreeBSD-7.1 on > a > > hard disk. I also run VMware Wkstn 6.5 running on a Windows XP PC. > > Is there an easy way to import from the hard disk to a guest OS? Suppose > I > > have the hard disk connected to the XP box? > > If you're happy to leave FreeBSD on its own disk (rather than > importing into a .vmdk), simply create a new VM and tell VMware to > "Use a physical disk" in the "Select a Disk" part of the > configuration. Point it at the required drive and away you go. I have > used this before to allow me to both boot my PC to FreeBSD, and to > Windows with FreeBSD still available. The thing is, I want to give the whole setup from that disk to a friend to run as a server, and he's bent on running it under virtualization. I offered to clone this to a disk for him but he says he wants me to help him run it under VMWare as a guest OS. Is it possible to make a DVD out of an already running server, which can be used to install it anywhere you feel like? If I cannot do any of the two above, then I have to install everything afresh for him as a guest on his virtualization platform and that is time-consuming! -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby." - Natalie Wood _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"