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From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
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 Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org>
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Subject: Re: converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu
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On Wednesday 09 January 2008 13:35:29 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> maybe it is an idea to just punch the complete disk /dev/sda
> with dd(1) to a file outside the VM and convert/use this with
> Qemu?

Yes, that's going to work. You'll be much better if
boot (or switch) to single user mode to avoid writes
on the mounted filesystems while copying...

Nikos