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Transfer a Linux installation from a physical disk to VMWare Fusion

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After my old triple boot system died recently I now desparately need to get my old Linux installation running in a virtual machine on my new system.

I therefore upgraded to VMWare Fusion 5, my machine is a Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion installed.

 

What I need to achieve is basically this: create a VMWare disk image from the old Linux partition and use it as system disk in a virtual machine.

 

 

I can physcally access the Linux partition on my old hard disk, and I have already created a .dmg file from it. However having tried different things and searched the web I have found myself unable to use it in VMWare Fusion, neither have I succeeded in creating an image from the physical device (vmware-rawdiskCreator seems to create a reference to the existing partition rather than copying its contents).

 

All the snappy, GUI-based converter tools I've found on the VMWare site seem to require Windows or Linux which I don't have here.

 

I am not afraid of using the shell or editing the virtual disk description files by hand, I just need to know what do do. Can anyone help me?


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