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Chapter 1 Introduction
4Converterremovesalltracesfromthesourcemachine.
Thevirtualmachineisreadytorunonthedestinationmachine.
Local Cold Cloning Workflow
Thefollowingworkflowisanexampleofcoldcloning,inwhichyouclonethesourcemachinewhenitisnot
runningitsoperatingsystem.YousetupamigrationbyusingtheConverterwizardavailableonthe
Converter BootCD.AfteryouboottheConverterBootCDandusetheapplicationon
ittodirectthecourseof
themigration,Converterautomaticallyperformsallofthecloningtasksuntilrebootingthesourcemachineto
returntoitsoriginaloperatingsystem.
Local Cold Cloning of a Physical Machine
1Converterpreparesthesourcemachineimage.
BootthesourcemachinefromtheVMwareConverterBootCDanduseConvertertodefineandstart
the
migration.ConvertercopiesthesourcevolumesintoaRAMdisk.
2Converterpreparesthevirtualmachineonthedestinationmachine.
Convertercreatesavirtualmachineonthedestinationmachineandcopiesvolumesfromthesource
machinetothedestinationmachine.
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