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DHamrick

Asked: 2009-06-30 20:28:26 +0800 CST

Creating a virtual machine in VirtualBox from a physical one

Is there any way to create a virtual machine that you can use in VirtualBox from a physical installation that you have? For instance, if I have Windows XP installed on a physical computer and want to have a virtual version of that machine on a different computer. This would save a ton of time by not having to reinstall and reconfigure the whole OS.

I would think there would be issues with Microsoft's licensing. But even if it's not possible with Windows would it be possible to take a physical Linux machine and create a VirtualBox version of that? Does any other desktop virtualization software provide this feature?

DHamrick

Asked: 2009-06-30 16:21:13 +0800 CST

Using Crontab to tar a directory at a regular interval

I want to tar a directory at a regular interval (say every morning at 4am) so I was planning on using crontab. How can I have the date be in the filename ie srcdirectorybackup5-30-09.tar so that I can differentiate between all of the tar files.

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