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Questions tagged [disk-image]

a disk-image is an exact copy of a disk, partition or volume, or the process of making such a copy.

A disk-image is an exact copy of a disk, partition or volume, or the process of making such a copy.

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Sysprep: Deploy image created in VirtualBox - Workflow?

I would like to deploy a reference installation of Windows 10 Pro with software and user settings to my physical clients. I have a couple of questions concerning this process: Can I start the development of the reference image without a product…
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using dd with conv=sparse to punch zeros

I am attempting to clone a disk partition to an image file using dd. I want to create the image without zeros to minimize the filesize, and on the other hand I do not want to pipe through gzip. The solution I found consists of writing zeros to a…
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Does having a good or bad filesystem inside a Virtual machine really matters?

I want to understand how the IO is sent to hard disk blocks from a virtual machine. Does having a XFS or ext3 or ext4 etc. really matters inside a virtual machine, or it is just depended on the file system of the host machine? What's the impact on…
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Using Clonezilla Server Edition with multiple multicast restore operations

I run a computer refurbishing operation for a local non-profit I am a part of. I have been looking into using Clonezilla to do network-based image-restoration. I am very interested in the multicast functionality provided by Clonezilla. I want to…
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How to create shared Google Compute Engine images?

In the past I've been using gcimagebundle to create an image from an existing GCE instance, that I can later upload to Cloud Storage. Since the tool been deprecated, I wonder if there is an alternative easy method to create GCE images? To clarify: I…
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microsoft azure image lose all user accounts

At the moment we try Microsoft azure to check out the compatibility with our own products. Creating and installing our own software was pretty easy and everything works as a charm. Now we try to generate images to quick set up VMs for demo and…
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Dell E7470 Imaging in Windows PE and Acronis

Our India office has received a shipment of Dell Latitude E7470 laptops. Our technician there is having issues imaging this laptop when attempting to use Acronis True Image (2015) as well in Win PE (Version 3 I believe for Windows 7 SP1). The…
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mount a kvm qcow2 file

so i have a kvm image that i'm trying to mount: [0c79dafb-abb7-4714-9a0a-4e16f0b305e7]# tree . ├── console.log ├── disk ├── disk.info └── libvirt.xml [0c79dafb-abb7-4714-9a0a-4e16f0b305e7]# qemu-img info disk image: disk file format: qcow2 virtual…
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qemu-img: by accident decreased disk size

I decreased my KVM disk image by accident from 100G to 50G using: sudo qemu-img resize disk.raw 50G I wanted to increase the disk from 100G to 250G. Now the VM is not booting :( And get this message: Is there anything I can do?
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How can I skip the sysprep step and just capture an image?

Ok the problem is, I am troubleshooting a problem with network connectivity when booting into the PE capture media (and only that PE). I only know how to use the capture media for SCCM, so each time I use it, it does a sysprep. I can't really…
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How to shrink size of raw virtual machine disk image (kvm)?

Let's say I have linux-vm-image.raw with size of 10GB. Inside there is one primary ("classical" MS-DOS-like partition table used, not GPT) etx4 partition (no LVM used), extending to the entire volume. And real data allocated on that partition is,…
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Mounting ISO image on VMware ESX guest OS without VMware client

I have an ISO image on my VMware ESX 3.5 host that I would like to mount in a guest OS. I cannot figure out how to do this. I can easily mount an ISO image with the VMware Infrastructure Client's "Connect CD/DVD" button (that also allows you to…
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Copy OS from degraded array to another RAID 1 array

We have a degraded (second drive is not recognized at all) RAID 1 array with Windows Server 2008 R2 installed. I'm using CopyWipe from a boot floppy to image the new array. It should be mentioned that we're moving from 500GB to 1TB drives, though…
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How to create a bootable ISO image from a disk snapshot

I've taken a disk snapshot of my Ubuntu VM from Amazon EC2. The snapshot is a ZIP archive of the whole disk. I've downloaded and then extracted the snapshot. Now I would like to create a bootable ISO image from it. I've already tried to use ImgBurn…
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Missing hal.dll After Disk Clone

A friend couldn't seem to get Norton Ghost to clone a disk usably. I suggested using GParted, and (after running chkdsk /f on the NTFS partition - possibly the cause of Norton's problem) took the following steps: Copied the recovery partition (at…
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