virtualising an existing server using VirtualBox

[Karl Auer]

Hi all.

I have a Linux server I'd like to virtualise. VirtualBox has an option
"convertfromraw" which apparently converts a raw disk image into a VM
image (vdi or vmdk)

Has anyone successfully done this? If so, have any tips?

Obviously the alternative is to rebuild the server, but that would be a
wearisome task. I'm virtualising for hardware independence more than
anything else. The hardware in use is getting pretty elderly and I'd
rather get something else in place before it fails.

Regards, K.
 
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