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On Thursday, 5 March 2020 09:54:01 GMT Alessandro Barbieri wrote: |
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> I want to do a crazy thing. I want to migrate my gentoo installation from a |
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> chroot to a VM (both on the same host). The host is debian but I can only |
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> use SSH. What do you suggest to do? |
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There are VMWare applications to convert a physical installation of an OS to a |
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VM disk, but since the guest OS is linux, the way I would do it would be: |
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1. Create a virtual disk of the desired size. |
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2. Attach a LiveCD to the VM and boot with it. |
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3. Use the LiveCD environment to partition/format/mount the VM disk. |
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4. Use rsync to copy the filesystem contents from the chroot to the VM |
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partitions. |
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5. Edit the copied fstab to correspond to the VM disk partition UUIDs and |
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potentially reinstall GRUB. |
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6. Unmount the VM disk partitions, shutdown the VM, detatch the LiveCD and |
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restart the VM. |
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You could use partclone instead of rsync, which would retain the same UUIDs |
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and filesystems as the chrooted system and therefore simplify the migration. |
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HTH. |
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