Hi,

I just followed the instructions for copying a disk image over ssh and now have a local file linode.img. The image is a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Disk Image.

How can I use this file and run the image in VMware Fusion 4? Is there a step-by-step guide on how to do this?

Thanks,
Torsten

1. Boot into a rescue media on vmware fusion
2. Run

dd if=/path/to/linode.image of=/path/to/device/to/copy/to

3. Mount the new device and edit /etc/fstab to your new device paths probably /dev/sda in vmware fusion
4. Reboot into the hard drive you just copied the image to.

Note this may fail horribly depending on if your file system layout and if you have a kernel installed on your linode.

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