<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:26 PM, David Suna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@davidsconsultants.com" target="_blank">david@davidsconsultants.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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This is somewhat off topic as it does not directly address Linux but
it does have some relevance to free software.<br>
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I have an old hard disk which ran Windows XP. I would like to turn
that into something that I can run as a virtualbox client. Does
anyone know how I would go about doing that?<br></div></blockquote><div><br>I've never actually tried this, but the following line might work:<br>dd if=/ of=/path/to/newImageFile.vdi<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks,<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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David Suna
<a href="mailto:david@davidsconsultants.com" target="_blank">david@davidsconsultants.com</a></pre>
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