Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:19:01 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> Subject: Re: converting VM from VMWare-format to Qemu Message-ID: <200801091419.02018.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20080109113529.GA6154@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20080109104253.GA5201@rebelion.Sisis.de> <42b497160801090306j29f85529peff83b4a3ba507b1@mail.gmail.com> <20080109113529.GA6154@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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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
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