[plug] Woohoo! My first post from Kubuntu!

[Jason Nicholls]

> I, personally thought that installing VMware Server was a bit of a pain,
> but after that everything is really cool - except I can't seem to find a
> way to reuse an XP partition in a virtual XP machine.

You can copy it by doing something like this:

- setup an XP VM with enough disk to fit the original XP partition
- boot into XP VM using a linux rescue CD (e.g. gnuparted)
- setup networking, you need to be able to get to the physical host
- if you're only copying the partition vs full physical disk then you'll
  need to use fdisk or equiv to setup a partition table on the VM disk
  to match (or larger).
- run something like "ssh <user>@<physical_host> 'dd
  if=/dev/<xp_partition>' | dd of=/dev/<dest_partition>"

It's probably easier if you do the full disk, then it'd be
/dev/<xp_disk> and /dev/<vm_disk>.


Jason.