- Patent Title: System and method for converting a physical disk to a virtual disk
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Application No.: US15096179Application Date: 2016-04-11
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Publication No.: US09940330B2Publication Date: 2018-04-10
- Inventor: Bich Cau Le , Dilip Khandekar , Sirishkumar Raghuram
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
- Current Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/445
- IPC: G06F9/445 ; G06F9/00 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
A method for converting a disk of a physical computer into a virtual disk for use by a virtual machine is described. Contents of the disk of the physical computer are copied into an image file, wherein the image file has a different sector-by-sector organization of the contents than the disk but a logically equivalent file system organization. Hardware configuration information from the image file is then extracted, wherein the hardware configuration information relates to hardware of the physical computer and, based on a comparison of the extracted hardware configuration information and a virtual hardware configuration of the virtual machine, hardware-dependent files in the image file are replaced with substitute files that are compatible with the virtual hardware configuration of the virtual machine.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160224572A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING A PHYSICAL DISK TO A VIRTUAL DISK Public/Granted day:2016-08-04
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