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      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div>Creator: Dobrica Pavlinušić</div><hr/><div class="wiki">
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Convert filesystem to vmware image</p>
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dpavlin@arh-hw:~/backuppc$ kvm-img create -f vmdk backuppc.vmdk 2G
Formatting 'backuppc.vmdk', fmt=vmdk size=2147483648 compat6=off 

dpavlin@arh-hw:~/backuppc$ kvm-nbd -p 1024 -v backuppc.vmdk &amp;

dpavlin@arh-hw:~/backuppc$ sudo nbd-client localhost 1024 /dev/nbd0
Negotiation: ..size = 2097152KB
bs=1024, sz=2097152


arh-hw:/home/dpavlin/backuppc# fdisk /dev/nbd0

arh-hw:/home/dpavlin/backuppc# mkfs.ext4 /dev/nbd0p1

arh-hw:/home/dpavlin/backuppc# mkdir /mnt/vmware
arh-hw:/home/dpavlin/backuppc# mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt/vmware/

arh-hw:/home/dpavlin/backuppc# cp -arv /mnt/backuppc/rootfs/ /mnt/vmware/

# configure kernel and grub

arh-hw:/home/dpavlin# echo do_initrd = Yes &gt; /tmp/backuppc/etc/kernel-img.conf

arh-hw:/home/dpavlin# chroot /tmp/backuppc

arh-hw:/# apt-get install linux-image-2.6-amd64 grub-pc

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kvm -vnc :1 -cdrom ../debian-squeeze-live-beta2-amd64-rescue.iso -hda backuppc.vmdk -boot d
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