Wednesday, February 13, 2013

P2V–Poverty pack edition for Linux

 

If you are running a tight (nah free, nah hobo data centre) you may from time to time need to P2V your Linux server to run it under VirtualBox. Here are some ways how:

If you have a USB HDD

Boot a Linux live CD, mount your USB somewhere, lets say /media/bigusb then simply run:

df –h (to find your {localdrivename})

dd if=/dev/{localdrivename} of=/media/bigusb/p2vdrive.raw

unmount the bigusb and move it to your virtualbox server, then run

VBoxManage convertdd p2vdrive.raw p2vdrive.vdi --format VDI

If you have a server

dd if=/dev/{localdrivename} | ssh logonname@ipAddress "dd of=/media/bigdisk/p2vdrive.raw"

VBoxManage convertdd p2vdrive.raw p2vdrive.vdi --format VDI

 

And away you go..

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