Using Mondorescue And Virtualbox To Move Physical Servers To Virtual Systems

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May 05, 2010

Using Mondorescue And Virtualbox To Move Physical Servers To Virtual Systems

By Alex Trent

While googling for the best method of p2v (physical to virtual) transitioning for Linux based systems, an extensive revealed this. While it is quite a read, we only need to do a few steps to get mondorescue working and backup our system. First, we'll need to get a few dependency packages for mondorescue.

This guide covers moving a Debian 4.0 systems from physical to virtual hardware. There were a few things that must be done to get it working, that are not covered in the available literature. Those steps will be covered in this guide. Mondorescuecan be used to backup Linux based systems to physical or virtual media to be used for restoration on the same, similar, or virtual hardware, depending on the preparations taken. Virtualboxis used to install, configure, manage, etc. virtual computer systems.

Install the required packages with:

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