Virtualising a physical machine

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 20:40 -0600, Ron Fish wrote:
> Clonezilla does it great....just clone the existing physical server, 
> then create a new vm in Vbox, set the clonezilla ISO as the boot cd, and 
> pull the image right onto the VDI of the new virt machine.

That sounds very nice - but what exactly does "clone the existing
physical server" mean? And "insert the Clonezilla ISO" may be
problematical when I need at least three DVDs or at least 15 CDs to
store the physical server's disk...

Not saying it's not possible, just that there are a couple of steps in
there that look a bit like "magic happens" and I'd like to be clear on
what they are!

Regards, K.

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