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bootable physical drive in VM

Posted: 5. Jul 2013, 00:25
by rpyne
I have a running linux system on a physical drive that I want to make into a VM. Is it possible to just boot the physical drive inside a VM?

Re: bootable physical drive in VM

Posted: 5. Jul 2013, 11:39
by mpack
It's possible, but not recommended. Better would be to use CloneZilla to make an image of the drive, then use CloneVDI to convert it to VDI format (use "Compact") option to get the image down to a reasonable size.