I am not quite certain what you want to do. I have moved Virtual Machines from one laptop to another. I installed virtual box on the new machine. I then copied the VirtualBox VMS direcoty for the original machine to the new machine. You will need to register the Virtual Machine with the software but the process works easily.

Regards

Peter Goggin
On 27/06/17 22:48, zep wrote:
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



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