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System and method for converting a physical disk to a virtual disk

  • US 9,940,330 B2
  • Filed: 04/11/2016
  • Issued: 04/10/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed on a computer processor, causes the computer processor to carry out a method of migrating a disk image of a first computer to a second computer, the method comprising:

  • capturing the disk image of the first computer, wherein the captured disk image includes a first file, which is a hardware-dependent system file corresponding to a hardware configuration of the first computer;

    copying unmodified contents of the captured disk image of the first computer to a disk of the second computer;

    determining a hardware configuration of the second computer; and

    modifying contents of the captured disk image of the first computer based on the hardware configuration of the second computer, wherein said modifying includes replacing the first file with a second file, which is a hardware-dependent system file corresponding to the determined hardware configuration of the second computer, wherein said modifying is carried out on a copy of the unmodified contents of the captured disk image of the first computer on the disk of the second computer, prior to deployment at the second computer.

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