I have an old crusty laptop that I was able to virtualize. I did not want to install VMware converter on it, also I wanted to see if it was possible to virtualize from a clonezilla image.
But there was a problem after I booted up the restored image (it did restore cleanly)
I knew it had to do with the storage type, this happened to me in the past, but I did not know how to get around it.
After some googling I came across this website.
http://iamrobertsworry.livejournal.com/791047.html
It was exactly what I needed. The original disk was on SATA, and ESXi (my version anyway) only had LSI, Buslogic, and Paravirtual.
I opted to try LSI.
Instead of using the a Windows 7 disk, I used LARD and the reged utility.
I mounted the C: drive and went to Windows/System32/config
and ran
reged -e system
to open the system hive
I cd’d to \ControlSet001\services\intelide and changed it to 0x0
Here are all the other values that needed changing
Aliide = 3
Amdide =3
Atapi = 0
Cmdide = 3
iaStorV = 3
intelide = 0
msahci = 3
pciide = 3
viaide = 3
LSI_SAS\Start = 0x0
I pressed q to quit and it asked me if I wanted to save, I did and rebooted
Bingo
A virtualized clonezilla image.
Just doing pushups and situps today.