On May 15, 2020, at 22:30, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I see that Microsoft has a utility that (apparently) can read a running system and create an image that can then be imported and run on Virtualbox.
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> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd
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> "You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted)."
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> Is there anything that does the same thing for Linux, and can image a system like that while it's actually running?
I doubt CentOS has anything for virtualbox, you should check with Oracle there.
But you can use virt-p2v to create a KVM image. It needs to be run from a rescue disk or livecd though.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v.1.html
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Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx>
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