Well, I'm always in favor of killing Grid Control, but in this case, I hope it works for you. I don't think we've had any problems, certainly in newer releases. Linux p2v is much more straightforward than windows as well. Good luck! Matt -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rich Jesse Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 3:06 PM To: ORACLE-L Subject: RE: SEMI-OT: Cloning OEL4 and Oracle 10gR2 to VMWare Hey Matt, > VMWare Converter will do exactly what you need, and is either free, or > free to try: This looks like it should do what I'm looking for. The datasheet they have shows why our local VMWare expert would not have known about using this for Linux, since the purchased Management Server version only seems to support converting Win servers for some reason. Thanks much! Hopefully it won't kill my Production Grid Control server... :) Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l