Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 05:41 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote:
>>>> I haven't tried it, but in theory you could take a clonezilla image of
>>>> the physical machine and restore it to a KVM disk image: Just create the
>>>> initial virtual drives at least as large as the originals, boot
>>>> clonezilla in the VM and restore from the images.
>> That's an excellent idea! I didn't consider it when I was trying to
>> figure out how to migrate a physical CentOS 5 server to a KVM.
>
> On 1.4.2011 4.38, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
>> I will try this just for shits and giggles.
>
> Please let us know what you will find out.
>
> - Jussi
I converted several bare-metal Windows systems to VirtualBox. KVM should
be the same. I would clone C: partition to image file, create VirtualBox
virt system with same partition size and create virtual shares
whereimage file is located.
Then I would clone from image to partition of virtual system and then
reset Windows IDE drivers (Hiren's Boot CD and some BartPE can do it.)
Doing this on Linux would entail dd or other cloning procedure and
LiveCD or Installation media to be able to change hdd/partition device
paths/names (if necessary) and you are done.
Ljubomir
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