[lug] virtualization first boot question

[David L. Anselmi]

Chris Riddoch wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Nate Duehr<nate at natetech.com>  wrote:
>> Are any of them capable these days of taking a *working* regular system running a single OS
>> natively on arbitrary hardware, and make an image out of that, dump the image onto another box, and
>> fire it up cleanly (assuming the OS can handle the "hardware" changes itself at the next boot)?
>
> Good luck with that... I've had my Windows VM think the hardware's
> changed at minor version changes of VirtualBox.

I used to have a dual boot system and I ran the Windows partition in a VM on Linux.  Not exactly 
what Nate is asking.

But the VM hardware looked different from the real hardware.  There's a doc on vmware.com that 
explains how to set up another hardware profile so that when booted in the VM the first time Windows 
does its mini-setup to configure that profile.

As long as you set up the other profile before you move hardware it works well enough.

Dave