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roscowgo
March 18th, 2009, 10:14 AM
Hello all,

I have an elderly windows server, running 2000 server that I would like to virtualize. It has 2 scsi disks, multiple partitions across those two disks, and a usb drive I'd prefer to have as a virtual device as well.

Can I use clonezilla to create images of these disks, create an appropriate virtual machine with the right number/size of disks, and use clonezilla to "restore" to that now virtual device?

Or is there some easier way that I don't know about being a N00b and all?

I'm worried about making the virtual device as close to identical as possible, as it is still accessed by users looking up data in quite a few scanned documents. Thus the clonezilla. It's also an AD controller.

bodhi.zazen
March 18th, 2009, 04:36 PM
I doubt your strategy will work easily as windows will complain that the hardware has changed.

I suggest you back up your files and data, anywhere you like, and install windows 2000 in a VM (fresh install) then transfer the data.

Otherwise follow a how to :

http://4sysops.com/archives/p2v-for-vmware-six-ways-to-convert-physical-to-virtual/