How to import a vmdk file

[fritzradda]

Hi VMWare lovers,

I hav a harddrive which I have turned into a VMDK file using ghost 14.
There is no way for me to get the PC hardware, only the harddrive is
available, so no good putting it into hardware and expecting it to
boot. I have esx 3.5, Vitrual Centre Server and VMWare server, but
can't for the life of me work out how to get a vmdk file as a virtual
machine.

Please point me in a direction.

Thanks,
FR

[blah]

assuming when converted it's converted into an esx compatible
format(i.e. no ide disks etc..)

copy the vmdk to /vmimages (or another ext3 filesystem) then
vmkfstools -i converted.vmdk
/vmfs/volumes/vmfsvolume/newesxcompatible.vmdk

this will convert it to the proper mvfs3 filesystem format.. then
you can just create a few VM via VI and just select existing disk..
point to this new disk and poof.. should work.

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:59:30 -0700 (PDT), fritzradda <fr...@radda.mobi>
wrote: