Virtual Machine or Physical Machine Migration With Clonezilla

Great video. Used it to move ESXI 7.0 host off VMware work station to my Dell R620 Server. The server would not recognize the drives for installation. It was driver issues from the installation disk (I think). Any how it worked

Thanks a lot Tom, this looks good; I have most of my installs already doing nightly and frequents with Acronis Server for their virtualized Windows; primarily for automation and routine. I've been aware of Clonezilla but haven't dipped into it, and looks great in many conditions (you don't need restore dates on migration or full current operational)

I've been a user and fan of Clonezilla for many years now, so much so that I enjoy watching videos of people doing the things I do lol. I must say, this video was nicely put together and knowledgeable.

I would like to take a Linux boot disk and create an ISO that I can replicate to multiple target SSD's. Can Clonezilla do that?

This worked well with my Hyper-V environment Gen 1 VM's. But not worked for Gen 2 Hyper-V VM's. Frezzed on Booting... Someone can Help me?

I just migrated a test Windows 10 VM from ESXi 6.7 to XCP-NG 8.2 in my homelab. Working great so far, just had some trouble getting the NIC to detect on XCP-NG but that was fixed by changing the template from W10 to Debian in XCP-NG. I use Citrix Hypervisor + XenCenter at work and decided I wanted to get familiar with Clonezilla and XOA before I pitch it to the team if we use it in production. Most of our V-V are using vCenter converter (yeah I know its EOL and I wish we'd find another solution). As always thanks for the tutorial Tom.

linux p2v boot fails

Hi, I tried to do it exactly that way but no luck. On my Proxmox I had it all set up as you, but it showed me this:
''Error! No existing partitions or no unmouted partitions are found! To use Clonezilla to save or clone a partition, the source partition must exist or be unmouted! If you are sure the partition exists in this machine, mabe the kernel is too old? Press Enter to exit...''

How can I over come this? Thank you.

Yeah I needed that a few days ago lol.. Couldn't find it.. Idk why

Thanks

it can copy a larger to a smaller one and thats really the reason to use it.

Lawrence can you do a video how to take a VM, boot to Clonezilla, and make an ISO on a NFS storage space of the VM?

excellent walk through thank you for creating, a few questions . . .

q1. any issues you foresee using this to move a vmware player [ or hyper-v ] windows 11/10 install to a physical machine install where the latter boots into clonezilla iso using usb boot stick?

q2. does clonezilla iso support detection and enabling of intel SoC wifi adapters and/or realtek usb nano dongle adapters so that you can boot physical machine and receive clone over a wifi network?

q3. any issues you foresee with the cloning of windows 11/10 from vmware player [ or hyper-v ] or different intel x86 isa 64-bit system setup to a new more current hardware setup?

This is exactly what I need. I've build my new server in virtualbox and am now ready to deploy it to hardware. Thanks!

Hi Lawrence!
Great video.
This technic work with phisical windows machine?
Thks in advance

This was super helpful. Thanks Tom!

I love this tech because it doesn't matter what the disk format is....no conversion is necessary for Hyper-V, VMWare, etc.

I always get the error "ailed to access perfctr msr", when trying to start clonezilla in virtualbox

SUPER COOOOOL~~~~ It's very helpful~~~

You cloned a debian VM, so clonezilla boots ok in that VM, but if you create a Window 10 VM and try to boot clonezilla it gives an error with the NIC and won´t allow the VM to connect with the physical machine which is ready.

Does this method works only with Linux OS or is it supposed to work with windows as well?

To be able to use the network feature of clonezilla make the job a lot easier and the disk2vhd method IMO.