Thank you Shachar and Eli, these suggestions are very helpful. On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 1:24 PM Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> wrote:
> Hello, > > A somewhat different approach is to copy the entire filesystem into a > new computer, and run the old operating system in parallel with the new > one. > > I'm doing this myself, and this approach works surprisingly well: > > https://billauer.co.il/blog/2018/11/linux-chroot-system-in-parallel/ > > And when I say that it works, I mean that some of the system's services > still belong to the old OS. For example, the DHCP server on the machine > that I write this mail on belongs to Fedora 12. Why? Because I never had > a good reason to replace it with the current system's. > > The obvious advantage is that the transition to the new computer can be > gradual. At some point, you'll just turn off the old computer because > everything runs fine on the new one. > > So all you need is tar. > > The drawback that I can see with a full image of the old system (except > for the obvious waste of disk space) is that the old kernel may not be > compatible with the virtual machine. Which can be solved by installing a > newer kernel. But then, why bother running a full virtual machine? You > might as well use chroot. Which brings me back to my original suggestion. > > Regards, > Eli > > On 04/11/2023 9:34, Michael Shiloh wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Situation: We have a linux computer with various software installed on > > old hardware that may malfunction and be unsupported. To mitigate this > > risk, we would like to make an image of this machine so that we can run > > it in a virtual machine. > > > > How do we do this? > > > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > > -- > Web: http://www.billauer.co.il >
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