That's what I've usually done. I think I've also used dd and then used the VirtualBox tools to convert a raw disk image into a VDI. On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Sean Waite <swaite at sbn-services.com>wrote: > I know you can use VMware vCenter Converter, and then use the drive with > Virtualbox. > > > > On Thursday, 29-11-2012 on 12:03 Erik Mitchell wrote: > > I am planning on buying a new laptop soon. I will be getting a solid > state drive right away, and am planning on installing Debian as my > main OS. > > I'd like to take the Windows install that's on the manufacturer's hard > drive and move it to a virtual disk image for VirtualBox. Has anyone > ever done this? I did a quick search and it looks like it's something > you can do, but I'm curious to know if anyone has ever tried it and if > there's anything I need to watch out for. > > Thanks, > > Erik > > -- > Erik K. Mitchell > erik.mitchell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- http://mtu.net/~jpschewe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20121130/7fb745e5/attachment-0001.html>