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Old 09-14-2007, 11:36 AM
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Default Create Backup, restore on VMWARE
I've got a machine running at home and a machine running in my office. I'd like to take a backup of my office machine and restore it into a vmware session at home so that I still have everything I need. Anyone ever done this before or have an ideas on how to go about doing this?
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I haven't really used VMWare, but I think you can just take an image of the computer at work with something like Symantec's Ghost and convert to a Virtual Disk that VMWare can run.
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One thing that I want to point out is the hardware will change inside of your vmware image so you may be unable to boot from a restore of a computer to a vmware image. I'm not sure though since I have never done this.

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I haven't really used VMWare, but I think you can just take an image of the computer at work with something like Symantec's Ghost and convert to a Virtual Disk that VMWare can run.
Can you directly convert a Ghost Image to vmware image or do you have to do a restore with the Ghost Image?
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