Clonezilla to Virtual Machines ?

[Ahkoneboeboat]

Hi.

Has anyone achieved good results with;

Cloning a Linux or Windows partition
via Clonezilla, then converting the clone into
a Virutal Machine, preferably VMWare ?

Thank you.
AB

[Steven Shiau]

I think it won't have too many problems for you to clone linux and restore it to VMware. Since Linux will detect all the hardware when it boots. However, this is not the case for M$ Windows. You have to use something like sysprep before you clone it.

[Steven Shiau]

If you want to mount the image in linux, only the image created by "dd" will work. For other programs, i.e. partimage, ntfsclone and partclone, all of them use special format which only allows you to restore the image to partition. You won't be able to mount the image created by them.

[Ahkoneboeboat]

Thanks Steven.

I backed up via clonezilla, re joined the pieces into a 15 Gig image file (.img), then
mounted the image file in linux via ntfs-3g

'Which' output format should clonezilla write to (i.e. dd, ntfsclone, partimage, partclone),
for intentions of creating a virtual machine (preferably vmdk) ?

The image would 'not' mount in windows xp with standard virual cd/dvd software but 'would' mount in linux.

1. After the image is mounted, which method are you aware of that will create
   a workable VMDK file ?

Thank you.