Moving existing machine to VirtualBox VM

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axpendix
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Moving existing machine to VirtualBox VM

Post by axpendix »

Hello,
We have a VPS box somewhere, which has CentOS 5.8 x86_64 installed, we have root ssh access.
We need to clone this entire machine as VirtualBox VM in a local machine, run it as the same system; only hostname, network configuration, memory and mount points should be changed.
Suppose I have tarballed the entire / directory and downloaded it. How can we load it as a VM in VirtualBox? Is it possible?
Host operating system can either be ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 or windows 7 x64.
Thanks in advance.
ChipMcK
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Re: Moving existing machine to VirtualBox VM

Post by ChipMcK »

Physical to Virtual ==> p2v

google search p2v site:forums.virtualbox.org

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