From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 08:42:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1FD9106567A for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:42:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7187F8FC0A for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:42:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [193.31.11.193] (helo=current.Sisis.de) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Onp5O-0003Hk-Kn for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:42:26 +0200 Received: from current.Sisis.de (current [127.0.0.1]) by current.Sisis.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7O8gQr3002196 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:42:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by current.Sisis.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o7O8gQTh002195 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:42:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: current.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:42:26 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100824084225.GA2160@current.Sisis.de> Mail-Followup-To: Matthias Apitz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100823070819.GB2539@current.Sisis.de> <4C7241C2.2000305@otenet.gr> <20100823112621.GA4367@current.Sisis.de> <4C725BFC.90006@otenet.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4C725BFC.90006@otenet.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 193.31.11.193 Subject: Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:42:29 -0000 El día Monday, August 23, 2010 a las 02:31:08PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > > Once having setup VMware (workstation), I plan to boot from FreeBSD live > > CD, create the slices big enough and fill in the dumps of my current > > system. Any objectives with this? Thx > > > > matthias > > > > This should work nicely. In fact, in one of my recent projects I did the > exact opposite with great success: > > I installed and configured a full system on Vmware Workstation, dumped > the partitions and restored on real hardware. > Saved me countless hours and had the school lab running in less than a day. I have produced three dumps: from the /, /var and /usr file system. The man page of restore(8) reads about creating pristine file system, made by newfs(8). Later, in the VM environment, I'd like to have only one big file system... Is it possible to restore the tree dumps into one big file system or do I have to rebuild the same slicing as I now have? In the original posting I was asking for some kind of benchmark tool in the ports, to compare current and VM disk i/o... any hits? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre!