title: From Linux to Windows: The Series link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/from-linux-to-windows-the-series/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 180 created: 2010/03/08 12:29:13 created_gmt: 2010/03/08 12:29:13 comment_status: open post_name: from-linux-to-windows-the-series status: publish post_type: post

From Linux to Windows: The Series

A new security initiative from corporate has forced a change in how I do things, at least on my company laptop.

I’ve been running some form of Unix on my work desktop and laptop for something like 8 years now. CentOS Linux (a free Red Hat Enterprise clone) has been the latest distro, and probably the one that’s worked best. Early on VMware became to tool of choice for providing a Windows environment to handle those things for which Linux compatible software wasn’t available or not deemed necessary by The Powers That Be.

Now we’ve got a new security initiative whose software component requires Windows on the bare metal, requiring that I re-image my laptop with our firm-standard build of Windows.

Of course part of that process for me will include preserving not only the features in my existing Windows on VMware environment, but also re-creating my mobile Linux machine in what will basically be a swap of Windows on VMware for Linux on VMware.

Over the weekend I accomplished the first part: getting a Windows image up and running on the laptop. The next step will be to migrate what’s in my Windows VM over there. Once that’s done I’ll take on the task of building a Linux VM to run on that new Windows platform.

What will follow in a series of posts will be a description of what I did and how I did it. Included will be some tricks and tips on dealing with hardware, transporting and manipulating disk images, and the continuing eccentricities of VMware Server.

Hopefully someone will find it helpful.

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