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Cloning BitLocker encrypted disk to VMWare Fusion image?

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http://serverfault.com – I have a ThinkPad running Windows 7 Enterprise with a BitLocker encrypted drive. I would like to clone or somehow convert this physical machine into a virtual machine that I can with either VMWare Fusion 5 or Parallels Desktop 8 on OS X. Is this even possible given the BitLocker encryption? (HowTos)

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Submitted by dayu on 10/26/2012 – Made popular on 10/26/2012

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