[ILUG] Virtualizing a Linux installation

[jhallam]

been looking into this myself, i decided in the end to just do a clean
install.
however this link might be of interest

http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/08/p2v_how_to_make_a_physical_linux_box_into_a_virtual_machine.shtml

let me know how you get on as i would be interested to know if it works.



Ruairi Hickey wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Making a backup is simple enough using tar, just remember to exclude the 
> pseudo directories such as dev, proc and sys.  You can restore the image 
> using a live CD....  from memory (failing rapidly) the syntax would be
>
> cd /tmp
> tar -zcvpf 
> myImage.tgz  --exclude=/sys --exclude=/proc --exclude=/dev --exclude=/var/run --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/var/tmp --exclude=/var/log /
>
>
> or if you don't have space on the box ssh the file inline as follows....
>
> tar -zcvpf -  --exclude=/sys --exclude=/proc --exclude=/dev --exclude=/var/run --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/var/tmp | 
> ssh <ip address> "cat >myimage.tgz"
>
>
> when restoring from a live CD (if necessary)
>
> ssh <ip address> "cat myimage.tgz" | tar -zxvpf -
>
> remember to mkdir the excluded directories above and to run grub to install 
> the bootloader 
>
> Ruairi
>