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I would like to ask if someone has backup a live system to an image and later load this image to a virtual machine. If so it would be great to provide us some information about the procedure and the configuration needs to be made.

After some reading I believe that a working solution might be the following procedure :

  1. Create a virtual System image using a tool like CloneZilla .
  2. Convert the image file to a more suitable format like .ova etc
  3. Load the formatted file to a virtual machine using virtual box.

Thanks in regard .

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  • Search the interwebs for P2V to get some ideas... for me that yields a link from CloneZilla even: https://clonezilla.org/lecture-materials/016_Linux_Tag_2014_workshop/workshop/P2V-by-Clonezilla.pdf – Steve Mar 13 '19 at 22:07
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    You can absolutely clone a system and then load it into a virtualbox machine, I have done it. I am not sure what you mean by a "live system" though; that usually means a system booted off USB and I don't know about that. I cloned my system, then booted virtualbox into Clonezilla and read in the copy. I copied just the system partition (/), not the separate /home partition (this was basically an experiment). I had set the virtualbox partitions up first. – Organic Marble Mar 13 '19 at 22:16

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