Back in the first part we mentioned the Panasonic POS device. It's a standard Windows based computer, just with fancy ports and a weirdly curvy design. If we want to explore the point of sale system as a whole our first step is backing up the existing data.
[pic of Matsuhisa POS]
Using a standard BIOS and legacy boot makes it possible to boot many operating systems. Today's choice is iVentoy due to the size of the hard drives in three of the units. PXE booting isn't disabled by default in a couple of the password locked units. I set up my laptop with a copy of iVentoy and Clonezilla to clone the drives via SMB to external storage.
A long arduous adventure of failing, failing, then finally succeeding in using Clonezilla to network image a new VM in VirtualBox, export to smaller disks, then network clone from VirtualBox to XCP-ng virtual machines. In the end, it works! I was able to export the VMs from XCP-ng, then convert to OVA format for your enjoyment!
In the next part lets explore how the network functions, and make a kitchen display show orders!
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