* [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive?
@ 2005-10-27 23:52 Scott Dudley
2005-10-28 0:09 ` Joe Menola
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From: Scott Dudley @ 2005-10-27 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel
Can I, in Linux, create a disk image from a mounted Windows disk? This
would save installation from scratch and migrating all
software/configuration.
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Scott Dudley
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive?
2005-10-27 23:52 [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive? Scott Dudley
@ 2005-10-28 0:09 ` Joe Menola
2005-10-28 1:18 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-28 8:23 ` Ozan Türkyılmaz
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From: Joe Menola @ 2005-10-28 0:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel
On Thursday 27 October 2005 6:52 pm, Scott Dudley wrote:
> Can I, in Linux, create a disk image from a mounted Windows disk? This
> would save installation from scratch and migrating all
> software/configuration.
>
Not sure if it's possible, but I doubt you'd be saving any time...assuming you
can ever get all the hardware changes in order. JMO
-jm
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive?
2005-10-27 23:52 [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive? Scott Dudley
2005-10-28 0:09 ` Joe Menola
@ 2005-10-28 1:18 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-10-28 8:23 ` Ozan Türkyılmaz
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From: Jim C. Brown @ 2005-10-28 1:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Scott Dudley; +Cc: qemu-devel
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 04:52:48PM -0700, Scott Dudley wrote:
>
> Can I, in Linux, create a disk image from a mounted Windows disk? This
> would save installation from scratch and migrating all
> software/configuration.
>
> Thanks.
>
It is a bad idea if a filesystem on the disk is mounted, as u might be reading
stuff while the disk is being written to. But if you can make sure that the disk
cache has been flushed and that nothing is trying to write at that moment, dd
works fine.
Of course, this will not save you any headaches during installation.
--
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive?
2005-10-27 23:52 [Qemu-devel] Can I Create an Image From an Existing Windows Drive? Scott Dudley
2005-10-28 0:09 ` Joe Menola
2005-10-28 1:18 ` Jim C. Brown
@ 2005-10-28 8:23 ` Ozan Türkyılmaz
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From: Ozan Türkyılmaz @ 2005-10-28 8:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel
On 28/10/05, Scott Dudley <scott@telesoft.com> wrote:
>
> Can I, in Linux, create a disk image from a mounted Windows disk? This
> would save installation from scratch and migrating all
> software/configuration.
>
first you have to umount it in sake of safetiness
then you can create the image by cat or dd. both would do the job.
> Thanks.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Dudley
>
>
>
>
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