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Re: How easy is it to convert to VMDK format?

From	Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM>
Newsgroups	comp.os.os2.programmer.misc, comp.os.os2.misc, comp.os.os2.setup.storage, comp.os.os2.beta
Subject	Re: How easy is it to convert to VMDK format?
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Organization	virginmedia.com
Date	2011-01-31 13:58 +0000

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> Look at qemu-img, it does almost all that sort of thing. I thinkVB has 
> its own utilities for doing such things too but coming from a 
> Linux/Xen backgrouond for virtualisation, I just used what I already 
> knew. I am pretty sure that my OS/2 disks are all 'raw' format which 
> sounds pretty much what you are describing so it might just work 
> without any conversion.
>

I find it amusing that I'm using VMDISK to create disc image files for 
not quite the virtual machine that it was originally used for.

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Re: What fake display adapter do you use? "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> - 2011-01-28 23:59 -0600
  How easy is it to convert to VMDK format? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-01-30 18:58 +0000
    Re: How easy is it to convert to VMDK format? "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> - 2011-01-30 15:09 -0600
      Re: How easy is it to convert to VMDK format? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-01-31 13:58 +0000
  Re: What fake display adapter do you use? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-01-29 13:58 +0000

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