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[ale] Question: Vmware -> PC
- Subject: [ale] Question: Vmware -> PC
- From: cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:12:12 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 12:02 -0600, Jeb Barger wrote:
> I have a basic question...
>
> I have a vmware linux server built and I want to bring over to a pc.
> Will it work? Has anybody done this? Can you dd over a network?
On the target PC you'll need to boot off a linux C that has network and
ssh.
ssh root at vmware "dd if=/dev/hda" | dd of=/dev/hda
I do this all the time when writing images to embedded devices. I do an
nfsroot and then dd an image off the nfsroot to the flash.
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