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I currently have Kali Linux OS installed on my machine normally (not as a virtual machine). I'll soon also install Windows 7.

I'd like to know if there is a way to convert my Kali Linux OS (with all it's memory) to be a virtual machine on VMWare on the soon-to-be-installed Windows 7?

The important thing is to keep all of the Linux OS memory (so that the VMWare machine will also have it).

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P2V is what you want. And VMWare actually has one. I used it before on a production mail server and it worked quite nicely. It writes the machine to an image which you can then toss into VMware. It has the option of copying itself, too.

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  • Thanks, sounds just like what I need. Does it keep the memory exactly as-is? I mean, when I will load it in VMware will everything stay where it was?
    – Dan Barzilay
    Commented May 1, 2014 at 17:11
  • No...unfortunately nothing I know of can do that. RAM cannot easily be copied P2V. All your applications and such will, though.
    – Nathan C
    Commented May 1, 2014 at 17:18
  • It's not RAM memory I ment. I'm talking about applications and their data (storage data, not RAM). So I'll change the question, will everything stay the same as if I rebooted?
    – Dan Barzilay
    Commented May 1, 2014 at 17:21

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