Re: Converting a running system to a VirtualBox VM
Dear Marc, Marc Shapiro wrote: It runs fine on Squeeze using IA32-libs. There does not seem to be a native 64-bit version for linux. I decided I would install Wheezy, activate multi-arch for i386 and install the 32-bit version. It was a good plan, except that it does not work. The Citrix Receiver apparently requires nspluginwrapper, which is not available in Wheezy because it depends on ia32-libs and so does not play nicely with multi-arch. Really? At least for me, apt-get install nspluginwrapper appeared positive that I could install it, although it would pull in fifty trillions (65 MB) of extra i386 libraries. 1) Stick with Squeeze indefinitely Meh. So, does anyone know of a way to convert my current system to a Virtualbox VM? Or would it be better to just create a new machine and install from scratch? Getting Citrix Receiver running properly always seems to be a hassle, so I thought that converting my current system might be easier. Any suggestions? Do you have a possibility to boot into another system, so that you don’t have to run VirtualBox on the system you want to clone? If so, you can either tell VirtualBox to use the partition of your current system as a physical disk, or you could boot the VM from some live CD, partition it properly and then simply rsync -avH your system over. Best, Claudius -- Please don’t CC me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130303114038.4a956...@ares.home.chubig.net
Re: Converting a running system to a VirtualBox VM
2013-03-03 08:56, Marc Shapiro skrev: So, does anyone know of a way to convert my current system to a Virtualbox VM? Or would it be better to just create a new machine and install from scratch? Getting Citrix Receiver running properly always seems to be a hassle, so I thought that converting my current system might be easier. Any suggestions? http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp0176 I _think_ you _might_ want to try booting to a live-cd, and run something like VBoxManage convertfromraw /dev/sda/ vboximage.vdi Then try to boot the vboximage.vdi disk in vbox. When I used it, I did roughly: dd if=/dev/sda of=diskimage.dd VBoxManage convertfromraw diskimage.dd vboximage.vdi I have only tried it once, but it worked much better than I had expected (yes, I was more pessimistic than I should have been). Regards Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/kgvll2$h0p$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Converting a running system to a VirtualBox VM
On 03/03/2013 06:10 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2013-03-03 08:56, Marc Shapiro skrev: So, does anyone know of a way to convert my current system to a Virtualbox VM? Or would it be better to just create a new machine and install from scratch? Getting Citrix Receiver running properly always seems to be a hassle, so I thought that converting my current system might be easier. Any suggestions? http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp0176 I _think_ you _might_ want to try booting to a live-cd, and run something like VBoxManage convertfromraw /dev/sda/ vboximage.vdi Then try to boot the vboximage.vdi disk in vbox. When I used it, I did roughly: dd if=/dev/sda of=diskimage.dd VBoxManage convertfromraw diskimage.dd vboximage.vdi I have only tried it once, but it worked much better than I had expected (yes, I was more pessimistic than I should have been). This looks promising. I will give it a try. Since I have already installed Wheezy in a separate partition I should be able to boot to Wheezy and then create the .vdi from the Squeeze partition, instead of using a live CD. Now I just have to get the other two people using this computed to save and close active files so that I CAN reboot. That may take a while, but I will report back when I get a chance to try this. Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/513433a8.8090...@gmail.com
Converting a running system to a VirtualBox VM
I am currently running Sueeze on an AMD64 box. I hope to upgrade to Wheezy soon, but I have a problem: Citrix Receiver It runs fine on Squeeze using IA32-libs. There does not seem to be a native 64-bit version for linux. I decided I would install Wheezy, activate multi-arch for i386 and install the 32-bit version. It was a good plan, except that it does not work. The Citrix Receiver apparently requires nspluginwrapper, which is not available in Wheezy because it depends on ia32-libs and so does not play nicely with multi-arch. So, my options seem to be: 1) Stick with Squeeze indefinitely 2) Hope Citrix releases a true 64-bit version soon 3) Find some other way to run the receiver Option 1 is not the best. I could be running Squeeze for a long time. Option 2 would be great if I thought it would happen soon. I'm sure they will come out with a 64-bit version for linux, but when that will happen is another story. That leave Option 3. Well, why not just run Squeeze in a VM? If I could clone my currently running Squeeze box into a Virtualbox VM then I could run that under wheezy and have a way to access my work computer. So, does anyone know of a way to convert my current system to a Virtualbox VM? Or would it be better to just create a new machine and install from scratch? Getting Citrix Receiver running properly always seems to be a hassle, so I thought that converting my current system might be easier. Any suggestions? Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51330242.3040...@gmail.com
