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Is it possible to convert a Physical Ubuntu Install (Intel based PC with Ubuntu 10.10) to a virtual box disk, so that I can use that same environment on a separate pc or can keep it virtual for testing?

Something similar to "Disk2VHD" which converts a physical Windows 2K3 and above box into a VHD or VMware image.

Will be grateful for your assistance ! Kind Regards

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Yes, however it will most likely take a very long time. I haven't actually tried the steps below, but they should work.

First, you need to make an image of your entire partition. You need to know the partition path of the Ubuntu partition, for example /dev/sda1 would be the first partition on the first attached hard drive.

sudo dd if=PART_PATH of=OUTPUT_PATH/ubuntu.bin

note that you should do the above command from a liveCD with the partition you are trying to copy unmounted -- i.e. you need to have another hard drive or something to copy all the data to.

You can shut the liveCD down and boot back into Ubuntu to perform the last step:

Convert the binary into a vbox drive:

VBoxManage convertdd PATH_TO_ubuntu.bin ubuntu.vdi --format VDI

you can then use the resulting ubuntu.vdi as a Virtualbox drive. Just make sure you have plenty of time and hard drive space for this operation. A little tip: commandline tasks can be suspended by hitting The operation will go to sleep, and you can use you computer again. When you are interested in resuming the process, type fg in the terminal, and the operation will resume. Quite handy for long operations like this.

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P2V of a Physical Machine with vCenter Converter

2012-02-11T06:01:00Z

P2V of a Physical Machine with vCenter Converter

P2V is a large subject to cover, as I cannot cover every scenario, so I am going to briefly cover a P2V conversion of an physical Ubuntu server I have kicking around. Many companies are trying to reduce there footprint and convert many physical machines into virtual ones, web servers, SMTP server are ideal candidates. The conversion is a two step process, the actual conversion and the cleanup process after you have created the VM. There are a number of 3rd party P2V converters including free ones but I will be using VMware own vCenter Converter to perform this task. Vware vCenter converter is a windows based application, that installs onto the vCenter management server, it fully supports both windows and linux conversions but you may want to check VMwareown website for all the available supported OS's. There are two versions of the converter available

Starter - is agent based and is free
Enterprise - can be either be agent or can boot from a cd

VMware vCenter converter is not a silver bullet, you may have to work with the converted VM to get it working properly, also if the server originally had problems those problems may be replicated in the VM environment. The more complex the physical server (could be a domain control, cluster server, etc), the more you may have problems converting it and getting it to work, here is where you need to look at the VMware forums or search the internet for answers.

Installing vCenter Converter

Installing the vCenter converter is like a normal application installation, on the vCenter server start the installation by putting in the vCenter 4.1 cd, and then selecting vCenter Converter

During the installation process, you will be asked about the vCenter management server details

Once the installation has finished select the plugins -> manage-plugins from the top bar of the vCenter window, then select download and install plugin

That's it, you are now ready to convert physical servers

P2V

Once you have the P2V plugin installed we can now import a physical server, I have a old HP D510 desktop PC with Ubuntu 32-bit OS running on it (yep old pc and old OS), lets convert this physical machine into a virtual machine. First select the ESXi server that you wish to import the new virtual machine into, in my case I have selected vmware01, right-click and select "import machine"

Now enter the details of the running physical server, I selected "view source details", just to make sure the connection is working and we have access to the physical server

All looks good, it see's my physical server as a Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit server

The next screen, gives us details on where the VM will be placed, I changed the datastore to a shared storage area (filer2_ds1), you can change the name of the VM if you wish

The screen allows us to configure the VM's hardware

I notice that the network was in correct, so selected edit and changed the network from private to public and can add additional NIC's if you wish

The "data to copy" screen allows us to select what volumes/filesystems we wish to copy across, there may be a case that you do not some volumes/filesystems copied and thus speed up the importing process.

With very little effort we are at the summary screen ready to import our physical server

It took about 5 minutes to import this server, the time it takes all depends on how much data you need to import, you can monitor the progress from the "recent tasks" window in the vCenter man screen

And here we have it, a fully imported physical server, I double checked the hardware settings and it done a pretty good job as I did not have to change anything

When I started the VM, all I had to do was edit the /etc/network/interfaces file and change the NIC to eth3 and up the interface and away we go, as you can see below

Ok not all P2V conversions will go as smoothly as this one did but you get the idea on what is involved and what you need to prepare before hand when performing a P2V conversion. There is also a Cold-Clone boot CD which allows you reboot the physical server from the CD and clone the physical server while it is offline.

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Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop 快速添加微软雅黑字体

2012-02-11T04:43:00Z

Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop 快速添加微软雅黑字体
向Ubuntu里添加雅黑字体，貌似已经成为了中文用户的一项必要功课。
即使你像我一样喜欢使用英文的系统，还是需要在浏览网页，编辑文档，收发邮件等过程中用到中文字体。
如果你Google或者参考 Ubuntu Wiki 就很容易找到向 Ubuntu 里添加字体的方法。
一直以来我也是这么做的，但是最近我发现 Ubuntu 10.04 以后有了更简单的方法。
你只需要三步便可完成：
1. 从Windows的机器上复制雅黑字体文件。以Win7为例，在 %windir%\fonts 下面找到雅黑字体，默认有两个文件(字体)
2. 复制到Ubuntu的机器上，双击字体文件选择 Install Font (安装字体)，或者在右键列表里选择安装
3. 现在字体已经可以使用了，你直接在你想要设置的程序里修改就可以了

另外设置Firefox的中文字体有一个小技巧。
你不应该去设置默认字体，这样会更改英文的字体。
你应该去高级里设置中文Chinese的字体以及其他Other的字体。
Other对应于Unicode。
这样可以保持英文字体不变，中文字体改为雅黑。
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ubuntu下断点续传工具 aria2

2012-02-10T23:51:00Z

Ubuntu/linux下最强大的下载工具－aria2

aria2是我今天新学到的一个命令行的下载工具，虽然还没研究透，但是他绝对比wget更好.

aria2 是 Linux 下一个不错的高速下载工具。由于它具有分段下载引擎，所以支持从多个地址或者从一个地址的多个连接来下载同一个文件。这样自然就大大加快了文件的下载速度。aria2 也具有断点续传功能，这使你随时能够恢复已经中断的文件下载。除了支持一般的 http(s) 和 ftp 协议外，aria2 还支持 BitTorrent 协议。这意味着，你也可以使用 aria2 来下载 torrent 文件。

安装 aria2

aria2 目前已被包含到许多 Linux 发行版中，因此你可以通过所用的系统直接加以安装。例如，在 Debian/Ubuntu 中，你可以在终端执行如下指令来安装 aria2：

sudo apt-get install aria2

aria2 的使用方法

aria2 是命令行程序，使用非常简单。

一般使用使用 aria2 下载文件，只需在命令后附加地址即可。比如我们下载ubuntu如：
```
aria2c http://www.mirror.tw/pub/ubuntu/releases/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso
```
分段下载利用 aria2 的分段下载功能可以加快文件的下载速度，对于下载大文件时特别有用。为了使用 aria2 的分段下载功能，你需要在命令中指定 s 选项。如：
```
aria2c -s 2 http://www.mirror.tw/pub/ubuntu/releases/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso
```
这将使用 2 个连接来下载该文件。s 后面的参数值介于 1~5 之间，你可以根据实际情况选择。

断点续传在命令中使用 c 选项可以断点续传文件。如：

aria2c -c http://www.mirror.tw/pub/ubuntu/releases/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso

下载 torrent 文件你也可以使用 aria2 下载 BitTorrent 文件。如：

aria2c -o gutsy.torrent http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/gutsy-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

关于 aria2 的更多用法，可以通过 man aria2c 查阅。

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convert vmdk to vdi

2012-02-10T22:45:00Z

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How To Convert VMWare Image (.vmdk) to VirtualBox Image (.vdi)
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I’ve found more and more people are switching to Virtualbox these days and I keep running into the same question. ”How can I convert my VMware images to Virtualbox images?” Well, breath easy because it is possible and not very difficult!
There are two methods that I am aware of that will allow you to use your VMware images on Virtualbox. The first method I’ll outline uses the graphical Virtualbox interface and the second uses the command line. Each method should be equally as stable, it simple depends on your preference.
Method 1
Start Virtualbox
Inside the Virtualbox Menu click: File > Virtual Media Manager
Click on the “Add” button.
Locate and select the VMware .vmdk file you’d like to convert.
Click Open.
Verify your disk image has been added to the list of images and that the virtual and actual sizes appear accurate.
Click OK
Create a new virtual machine profile, selecting your imported image for the storage.
Boot your new virtual machine.
Method 2
To use the second method we’ll need an addition command-line tool called qemu.
`sudo aptitude install qemu`
You’ll new be able to convert a .vmdk (VMware image) to a .bin format, which can then be converted to a Virtualbox native .vdi format.
`qemu-img convert /path/to/original.vmdk converted.bin`
You’ll then need to use the VBoxManage utility that comes with Virtualbox to convert the .bin to a native .vdi format:
`VBoxManage convertdd converted.bin converted.vdi`
You can now create your new Virtualbox machine profile, using this new .vdi file as your disk image.
Two methods for converting VMware images to Virtualbox images. Are there any other methods that you can suggest, or have you had better experience with one or the other? Let us know!
Categories:virtualizationTags:conversion, vdi, virtualbox, vmdk, vmware

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