RE: SEMI-OT: Cloning OEL4 and Oracle 10gR2 to VMWare

From: Rich Jesse <rjoralist_at_society.servebeer.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:11:30 -0600 (CST)
Message-ID: <40b81a97142bbf74dd8f8122778e57ad.squirrel_at_society.servebeer.com>



Hey Matt,

> VMWare Converter will do exactly what you need, and is either free, or
> free to try:
>
> https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=converter
>
> No need to try to do this manually. We go through this routinely when
> we move from physical to virtual machines.

Well, almost. Apparently, the free standalone version of Converter is not able to P2V Linux OSs to the free VMWare Player. Interestingly enough, it seems to support this for Windows sources.

[sigh]

Rich

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Received on Tue Jan 19 2010 - 10:11:30 CST

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