[lists] [Full-disclosure] cloning PC / run in VMware

[Curt Purdy]

indianz at indianz.ch wrote:
> For circumvention of a certificate-based authentication I 
> thought about
> cloning a windows pc into a image and let it run in a vmware- 
> or qemu-like
> environment. Cloning from notebook to another notebook works, the
> certificate is accepted. Has anybody experience with cloning 
> into an image
> and let it run in a virtualization engine? Any hints welcome, 

I backup my VMWare hosts to a file image less than half the size of the
virtual disk and then can restore or move to a clone or another VMWare
Server.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSNA, GSEC, CNE, MCSE+I, CCDA 
Information Security Officer 
Information Systems Security
infosysec.net

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