Convert dedicated server to virtual machine

[ivang]

I'm completly new with virtualbox and would like to use it to use it as a development box (like much other users I suppose).
We have a dedicated server with Ubuntu 10 and since we're going to introduce very big changes in the website and databases,
we want to convert it into a virtual machine, do the tests and changes and if it works fine, replicate it to the production server
(or perhaps convert it from virtual to real box).

How can I convert the real machine to a virtual one?

Thank you very much in advance

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Ivang

[Perryg]

You should search using the terms p2v for physical to virtual and v2p the other direction. Plenty has been discussed here about it.

example: p2v site:forums.virtualbox.org in Google

Three letter searches do not work directly with phpBB, so use Google or just about any other search engine with the above phrase.

[ivang]

Thank you very much for giving me the correct name convention to make the searches.