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I want to move my Ubuntu 13.04 into the VirtualBox storage. Paragon Backup & Recovery can prepare Windows for moving into virtual storage. But I cannot find any analogue for Linux.

Can you give me advice, please?

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    How do you have your Ubuntu 13.04 installation installed now? Try to be a lot more specific: partition size, partition type, dual boot (yes/no), etc. With specific details it's possible to provide some steps into converting the installation. If it's on a dedicated physical disk, then it's fairly easy. – gertvdijk Jun 20 '13 at 09:08
  • The question I closed this as a duplicate of should still work. You may need to boot into a LiveCD/USB environment to mirror the disk accurately and save that to the Windows disk (which you'll need to mount before running the dd command) but then you can just convert the raw image to a VDI once you're in Windows. – Oli Jun 20 '13 at 09:52
  • Also: doesn't VirtualBox allow mounting real partitions as virtual disks? If it does, wouldn't that be better? Edit: see http://www.sysprobs.com/access-physical-disk-virtualbox-desktop-virtualization-software – Oli Jun 20 '13 at 09:54
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    Sure, VirtualBox can use a real partition: http://askubuntu.com/a/192371/3940 – Takkat Jun 20 '13 at 10:13

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