On 06/27/2017 05:27 AM, Adam Funk wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to create a VirtualBox image from Windows installed > on a laptop without physically removing the hard drive? Ideally, it > would be something like booting a live CD and putting the image file > on a USB stick or drive. > > Thanks, > Adam >
it's a bit of an intermediate step, but I've had my best luck with clonezilla. (http://clonezilla.org/). the process I would use would be something like: download clonezilla, boot source machine from usb, burned cd, or possibly mounted iso image copy/backup source machine data out to some fileserver X (you can use local USB disks, but it'd end up being more difficult I think on the restore -- also note you'd need at least source machine's disk size of freespace on fileserver X) create your virtualbox VM, blank disk, correct memory size, workable network backing, connect the clonezilla iso image to the vm's virtual CD boot VM and restore from fileserver X -- public gpg key id: 0x5B8147CB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
