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Alec Gorge
Asked: 2009-11-19 17:06:02 +0800 CST

Create flat VMWare Image from a hard drive

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I have a ubuntu installed on a partition on my hard drive and I have finally gotten ubuntu to work just the way I like it. However, using a partition of my hard drive as the main disk in my vmware machine is really slow.

I would like to just be able to make an exact copy of what is on this partition--but in a vmdk.

However, I would like to have some room to spare on the disk and I want it to be a flat image (30gb or so) for it to perform even faster.

I am using Workstation 7 in Windows 7.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I think you can use a conversion wizard for that. You can find it at File->Import or Export in the main menu.

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  2. VMware converter sounds like what you're looking for:

    http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/

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