Re: [opensuse] Clone an existing webserver into a virtual machine

2007-03-23 Thread Johannes Nohl
However, you can redirect the output via scp to save it another box. ;) I had a look to scp without redirecting but directly copy from the webserver. Unfortunately scp in opensuse works different than the one in BSDs. It can preserve times (-p) but can't preserve guid. If it could I could make

[opensuse] Clone an existing webserver into a virtual machine

2007-03-22 Thread Johannes Nohl
Dear list, I have a webserver with SSH access only (no physical access). I want to try changes in configuration. I think the easiest way would be setting up a test system, rather than trying on a production system. I'd like to use virtualbox setting up a clone of the webserver. But how do I do?

Re: [opensuse] Clone an existing webserver into a virtual machine

2007-03-22 Thread Anders Norrbring
Johannes Nohl skrev: Dear list, I have a webserver with SSH access only (no physical access). I want to try changes in configuration. I think the easiest way would be setting up a test system, rather than trying on a production system. I'd like to use virtualbox setting up a clone of the

Re: [opensuse] Clone an existing webserver into a virtual machine

2007-03-22 Thread Johannes Nohl
Are you using VMware? If so, use their P2V utility. Last time I did an operation like that, I copied the entire disk to file, then unpacked that file onto a 2:nd disk in the VM. No, I wanted to use VirtualBox. Much like 'dd if=/dev/hdx | gzip /path/to/image.gz', then unpack with 'gzip -dc

Re: [opensuse] Clone an existing webserver into a virtual machine

2007-03-22 Thread Anders Norrbring
Johannes Nohl skrev: Are you using VMware? If so, use their P2V utility. Last time I did an operation like that, I copied the entire disk to file, then unpacked that file onto a 2:nd disk in the VM. No, I wanted to use VirtualBox. Much like 'dd if=/dev/hdx | gzip /path/to/image.gz', then