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Migrating From VMware to Bochs

/ September 28, 2016 — Interoperability

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    There is a utility that will allow you to mount your VMware vmdk images here:
    www.vmware.com/download/ws/

    We used VMware-mount-5.0.0-13124.exe:

    C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware DiskMount Utility>vmware-mount w: s:\usr-2\d.vmdk
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware DiskMount Utility>dir w:
Volume in drive W has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 3344-0E04
Directory of W:\
08/24/1996  11:11a              93,812 COMMAND.COM
04/07/2004  06:48a                   0 CONFIG.SYS
04/05/2004  07:28a                 489 NETLOG.TXT
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.
.
6 File(s)         95,856 bytes
5 Dir(s)     909,246,464 bytes free
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware DiskMount Utility>

    The DiskMount utility is a windows program, so it is more difficult to be sure about what files you can grab from the mounted partition. Cygwin works well for this:

    Administrator@srv-2 /cygdrive/w
$ ls
AUTOEXEC.BAT  CONFIG.SYS  MSDOS.---     Program Files  SYSTEM.1ST
BOOTLOG.PRV   DETLOG.OLD  MSDOS.SYS     SCANDISK.LOG   NETADMIN
BOOTLOG.TXT   DETLOG.TXT  My Documents  SETUPLOG.TXT   WINDOWS
COMMAND.COM   IO.SYS      NETLOG.TXT    SUHDLOG.DAT    LINUX.GNU 
Administrator@srv-2 /cygdrive/w
Administrator@srv-2 /cygdrive/w
$ tar -czf /cygdrive/c/win.tar.gz .

    Now we have a tarball with our Windows filesystem, let’s mount a disk image that we will use for Bochs, and transfer the files:

      
[root@srv-1 usr-1]# /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop0
[root@srv-1 usr-1]# /sbin/losetup -o 32256 /dev/loop0 d.img
[root@srv-1 usr-1]# mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
[root@srv-1 usr-1]#
[root@srv-1 usr-1]# cd /mnt
[root@srv-1 mnt]# ls
command.com  io.sys  msdos.sys
[root@srv-1 mnt]#
[root@srv-1 mnt]# tar -xzf /home/usr-1/win.tar.gz
[root@srv-1 mnt]# ls -l
total 1168
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   8192 Apr  7  2004 My Documents
dr-xr-xr-x  11 root root   8192 Apr  5  2004 Program Files
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.
.
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    450 Nov  3 20:45 scandisk.log
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  55387 Apr  5  2004 setuplog.txt
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   5166 Apr  5  2004 suhdlog.dat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 402932 Apr  5  2004 system.1st
drwxr-xr-x  32 root root   8192 Apr  5  2004 windows

    Looks good. Let’s unmount our image:

    [root@srv-1 mnt]# cd /
[root@srv-1 /]# umount /mnt
[root@srv-1 /]# /sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop0
[root@srv-1 /]#

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