Re: Converting a running system to a VirtualBox VM

[Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist@gmail.com>]

2013-03-03 08:56, Marc Shapiro skrev:
> So, does anyone know of a way to convert my current system to a
> Virtualbox VM? Or would it be better to just create a new machine and
> install from scratch? Getting Citrix Receiver running properly always
> seems to be a hassle, so I thought that converting my current system
> might be easier. Any suggestions?


<http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp22220176>

I _think_ you _might_ want to try booting to a live-cd, and run 
something like

VBoxManage convertfromraw /dev/sda/ vboximage.vdi

Then try to boot the vboximage.vdi disk in vbox.

When I used it, I did roughly:

dd if=/dev/sda of=diskimage.dd
VBoxManage convertfromraw diskimage.dd vboximage.vdi

I have only tried it once, but it worked much better than I had expected 
(yes, I was more pessimistic than I should have been).

Regards

Johan