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Moving a real linux env to virtual box

Posted: 19. Sep 2012, 10:33
by stevendobbs
Hello,

I have of course googled this and checked the forum but perhaps I don't know what I am searching for.

I need to move a staging linux environment to a virtual box vm. Any suggestions on how to do this?

best regards
Steve

Re: Moving a real linux env to virtual box

Posted: 19. Sep 2012, 11:33
by mpack
You need to make an image of the entire Linux hard disk, with your preferred Linux disk imaging tool. Probably the easiest - though it requires the most working space - is to use CloneZilla to create a raw image, then use CloneVDI with the Compact option enabled, to convert raw to VDI. For CloneVDI see sticky at the top of this forum.