On Sat, 12 May 2007, Russ Wright wrote:
> I am rebuilding some of my web servers and came across "The Perfect
> Setup" Centos 4.4 and ispconfig on how-to forge.
>
> http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_centos_4.4
>
> It seems they also offer a vmware image so you can try it out. Is it
> possible to convert that image and actually load it to disk as the
> operating system? That would really save some setup time as the image
> is fully configured.
outside VMware, on desthost: netcat -p port > /dev/destHD
inside VMWare: netcat desthost port < /dev/sourceHD
If they're journalling filesystems you can even do it while the system is
"live", but that will result in an image that looks as if it has suffered a
power cut; lockfiles may be scattered about.
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