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Hey guys
i was wondering if theres a guide to making a complete VM Image of my KDE Archlinux installation on the hard disk /dev/sdc on my pc, so that i can run it in a virtual machine without having to resetup everything
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I think not, but it is quite easy. Boot from a recovery CD, create an image and store it somewhere. Do you have an external disk large enough, or some remote storage you want to push it to. Or maybe just a local disk? All it would take is executing `dd` with the correct options
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just dd /dev/sdc to the vm image, or much better, partion the vm image and just copy in the actual data insted. Then just tweak the initcpio etc and boot the vm.
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ok im a little confused your talking to a noobie here. ive only ever used VM in windows 7. i dont even have VM installed on linux or not that im aware of. so i do have external space
so i need a recovery cd? i have cd's for multiple distros, one for archbang and CTKArch. but im not sure if they will work
and then i put dd /dev/sdc in the terminal?
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Hey guys
ok ive read the wiki and i do understand abit more now about disk cloning
But im wondering how id go about achieving my goal
basically
I have windows 7 on /dev/sdb
and archlinux on /dev/sdc
I want to make a clone of /dev/sdc, an image, and put it /dev/sdb, and then convert that image, or find a way to use in VirtualBox in windows 7 without curropting my windows 7 MBR or installation
so what would be the best way to achieve this
basically what im asking is like. when you use dd and save the image as .img.gz , do you restore it the same way in a virtualbox, since VM would have different partitions etc. or can i save the file as a .vdi and would that work
so like how would i get that dd image to work in virtualbox
Last edited by nankura (2011-08-15 02:55:41)
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Googling "migrate linux to virtualbox" might help.
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Merged. nankura, please don't open duplicate threads and read this please: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Forum_Etiquette
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