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Restoring clonezilla image to A Virtualbox machine

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QC
2013-05-08
2013-06-01
  • QC

    QC - 2013-05-08

    This bit's solved now, however I have a quick question (below) so added to this instead of create new topic as it's related.

    Hi,

    I'm having difficulty restoring an image to an Oracle virtualbox and wonder if anyone out there can help, especially as you appear to use VB a lot yourselves for testing.

    The source is a physical machine (P4 D, Win 7 32bit, 4Gb ram) cloned using partclone as only want system not data (physical drive has partitions - 100Mb sys reserved, 39.9Gb OS, 100&something Gb Data)
    Making the image went to plan.

    i've created a VM, given it a virtual HDD of 41Gb. (1Gb larger than the source)
    partitioned it using g-parted (live cd) with 100Mb & 39.9Gb (leaving 1Gb free space at the end)
    The VM has been given access to 2 cpus and 1gb of memory, other than that it's at default settings

    Then I boot it with clonezilla Live cd, use beginner settings, part-restore, select both partitions & off it goes. (The image is stored on a usb hdd i use regularly for cloning)

    Now the non-linear bit. It, and by 'it' i'm not sure if i mean clonezilla or virtualbox yet, hangs. the best bit is it hangs at a seemingly random point during the restore. So far anywhere from 10mins to an hour. Clonezilla stops 'counting down the time left', taskman on the host machine shows virtalbox as 'not responding' and the only way out of it is to 'kill' the virtualbox process

    things I have tried so far -
    fixed and dynamic virtual hdd's
    2 different usb harddrives
    3 different clonzilla live cd builds
    2 different cloned images (just in case the one i was restoring was knackered somehow)
    booting clonzilla from an actual CD as well as just mounting the .iso in VB

    I'm going to try turning the No. of CPU's down to 1 later but after that i'm right out ideas.

    Cheers,

    QC.

     

    Last edit: QC 2013-05-29
  • QC

    QC - 2013-05-09
       *SOLVED*
    

    Turned the No of CPU's down to 1 while restoring, Job done.
    Now for a quick bit of fannying around fixing the boot and IDE drv bsod (probably)

    Cheers Ears.

    "Strange how just writing a problem down sometimes leads you right to the solution" :)

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2013-05-10

    Sure. Thanks for sharing that.

    Steven.

     
  • QC

    QC - 2013-05-29

    Just before this gets buried for compost.....

    When restoring a machine to a virtualbox, should i set the VB to type 'linux' while restoring and then put it back to 'win Vx' after or does that make no difference?

    Just a thought?

    Cheers,
    Carl.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2013-06-01

    Basically I believe it makes no difference if Clonezilla live can boot in your virtual machine, and detect all the hard drive you have.

    Steven.

     

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