From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 10 13:09:34 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87B36232 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DBE2352 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.143] ([95.91.226.107]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lz3nU-1ZSnhP3OAy-014D2S; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:09:27 +0200 Message-ID: <5527CB85.7060709@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:09:25 +0200 From: "lokadamus@gmx.de" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Newman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: creating a virtual clone References: <5522C5DE.1050005@networktest.com> In-Reply-To: <5522C5DE.1050005@networktest.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:PlvMvb/zo2QlgXuQp8oZSPlkHskqapl1XIdTzMHvXSwMk9jVL8i HloFeHUmE8S+S5bI1ke3wP0uWRMHJohZtZdouQ6JOujRY7CWYrepFUV4sYvd2rezkImI0AH EeJ+sMzQlYGWZUaYVmj4fVHvCn/BW2336Jk6l5ntln17lPzYbt9hBKS7Pag9oIDy0sZsrRV njGcok+ApXbO9Q5/X2ZFA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:09:34 -0000 On 04/06/15 19:43, David Newman wrote: > To test some new software, I'd like to replicate a 9.3-RELEASE machine > and run it as a virtual machine (in this case inside VMware vSphere, but > I'm open to using other hypervisors if this isn't possible with VMware). > > The 9.3 host is itself virtual, running as a VPS instance in a colo. > > What's the best way to do this? > > Thanks! > > dn > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Have you access to the ESXi/ VMWare Host? https://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_clone.html Else you can make an image with dd or truimage and make a new vm with this image. Greets