Hi Torsten.

11 Jan 19 23:40:24, you wrote to me:

 TB> Ah, okay. Some of our r24 nodes running vmware esxi. I do not like this
 TB> idea, because I have not a (however called 'proper') operatingsystem
 TB> underneath.

I like the idea of snapshotting. :)

 TK>> I simply took out the harddisk, put it into usb docking station and
 TK>> converted it to .vmdk disk image. Not much to do after, just to
 TK>> replace the network drivers. Pretty painless operation.

 TB> Thanks a lot for the information. What sort of nic-driver do you use with
 TB> vm-ware workstation? The old intel-nic driver?

Old "ibm pci ethernet adapter". That one got autodetected and I
had no reason to try any other ones. Yet. :)

'Tommi

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