Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:42:26 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host Message-ID: <20100824084225.GA2160@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <4C725BFC.90006@otenet.gr> References: <20100823070819.GB2539@current.Sisis.de> <4C7241C2.2000305@otenet.gr> <20100823112621.GA4367@current.Sisis.de> <4C725BFC.90006@otenet.gr>
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El día Monday, August 23, 2010 a las 02:31:08PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > > Once having setup VMware (workstation), I plan to boot from FreeBSD live > > CD, create the slices big enough and fill in the dumps of my current > > system. Any objectives with this? Thx > > > > matthias > > > > This should work nicely. In fact, in one of my recent projects I did the > exact opposite with great success: > > I installed and configured a full system on Vmware Workstation, dumped > the partitions and restored on real hardware. > Saved me countless hours and had the school lab running in less than a day. I have produced three dumps: from the /, /var and /usr file system. The man page of restore(8) reads about creating pristine file system, made by newfs(8). Later, in the VM environment, I'd like to have only one big file system... Is it possible to restore the tree dumps into one big file system or do I have to rebuild the same slicing as I now have? In the original posting I was asking for some kind of benchmark tool in the ports, to compare current and VM disk i/o... any hits? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre!
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