I have been in IT for 20 years and worked both in house for small company and large corporations. I have worked for several MSP's in the past also and even I find this content helpful. I have worked with clonezilla in the past but never used this feature. I had a VM in proxmox that I needed to move it to virtualbox. This process worked almost perfectly. I just needed to tweak a couple of things in the new VM to make it work on the new host. Would of had to do that no matter what method i used anyway. Thanks for sharing this! you bring great value to the community.
I was playing in my lab with FOG project software for ipxe cloning/imaging/deployment. I believe it also uses partclone same tool as clonezilla. nice tool.
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 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.
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)
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 pretty neat, I like that it just does it over the network. No extra drives! Regarding the hypervisor you used, I'm debating on trying out XCP-NG. I've been using proxmox but XCP looks interesting. Have you tried Proxmox before and if so do you prefer XCP to it? Thanks for the videos :)
While this is useful as an agnostic solution, which is absolute praise for clonezilla, specifically with VMware and Windows (and some of the big linux distros) there is an incredible tool that can do a clone like this live and even preform incremental syncs before cutting over. That's not useful when using a hypervisor that isn't VMware related or a linux distro that isn't supported, but it's a far better experience than clonezilla in a situation where it can be used.
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.
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
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.
I found a way to solve the problem described above. It´s a bypass but works great and you can clone any windows disk from a source computer to the XCP-NG VM disk using clonezilla.
@@tepitokura I do it this way: Create a new VM with a linux system, let´s say CentOS 7. Add a disk with the same size or bigger than the on you are cloning from the windows machine. Boot the VM CentOS 7 with clonezilla and do the same with the windows computer using a pen drive with clonezilla. Setup the clone to work on the network. After the cloning finishes stop the VM CentOS machine and detach the disk from the VM CentOS. Create a new VM with the same windows (delete or detach the disk created with the new VM) and attach the disk that came from the VM CentOS to the new VM Windows. Start the new VM Windows and it should work ok. I´ve cloned more than 10 Windows computers doing this way and it has worked pretty well so far. Hope it helps.
@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Rescuezilla is a new project that started in 2019 that extended the (at the time) abandoned Redo Backup & Restore. The project was dead and resurrected was "Redo Backup and Restore" which was renamed to "Redo Rescue."
Clonezilla is a very simple tool, if you want a more complete and permanent solution (also open source), the Fog Project does the job perfectly! fogproject.org
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How To Convert Physical Servers to Virtual Using Disk2vhd With XCP-NG & Xen Orchestra
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⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
0:00 Clonezila Virtual Machine Migrations
1:51 What is Clonezilla
4:50 Virtual Drive Destination Size
5:17 Running Clonezilla
6:06 Remote Source setup
7:43 Destination Setup
11:54 fixing network interfaces
Good video. I will use clonezilla from now on. Seem usufull tool. Ciao
On behalf of a LOT of the IT community thank you for all of your freaking awesome content Lawrence!
;)
Have to second this. I'm currently a trainee system integration specialist and his content has actually taught me way more than school.
You may have misspelled his name... 0:00
I have been in IT for 20 years and worked both in house for small company and large corporations. I have worked for several MSP's in the past also and even I find this content helpful. I have worked with clonezilla in the past but never used this feature. I had a VM in proxmox that I needed to move it to virtualbox. This process worked almost perfectly. I just needed to tweak a couple of things in the new VM to make it work on the new host. Would of had to do that no matter what method i used anyway. Thanks for sharing this! you bring great value to the community.
Done that last year to migrate from an ESXI to XCP-NG for a customer :) worked perfectly fine. Even the Windows 2008 Servers.
I was playing in my lab with FOG project software for ipxe cloning/imaging/deployment. I believe it also uses partclone same tool as clonezilla. nice tool.
Fantastic video. Thanks for making all of this information available in an easily consumable format.
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 wish I clone your knowledge.
Damm soo much to learn
Neat! This use case for Clonezilla had never even occurred to me and will probably help me quite a bit in the future.
This is exactly what I need. I've build my new server in virtualbox and am now ready to deploy it to hardware. Thanks!
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.
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)
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.
Clonezillia one of the most useful tools should be in every kit.
I remember using clonezilla back in the 90’s?? 00’s? I thought it was gone.
Good to see that’s still an option
I have been using clonezilla for at least a decade now. What a life saver!
Been using it for 7 years.
never done it over a network before. pretty cool
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?
Definite fan of Clonezilla for a one-off clone or backup. Much better fan of FOG project for setting up many devices under a M$ volume license.
very cool did not know you could use with vms like this will have to try on my xcpng machine
Thanks for the video
This is pretty neat, I like that it just does it over the network. No extra drives! Regarding the hypervisor you used, I'm debating on trying out XCP-NG. I've been using proxmox but XCP looks interesting. Have you tried Proxmox before and if so do you prefer XCP to it?
Thanks for the videos :)
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it can copy a larger to a smaller one and thats really the reason to use it.
While this is useful as an agnostic solution, which is absolute praise for clonezilla, specifically with VMware and Windows (and some of the big linux distros) there is an incredible tool that can do a clone like this live and even preform incremental syncs before cutting over. That's not useful when using a hypervisor that isn't VMware related or a linux distro that isn't supported, but it's a far better experience than clonezilla in a situation where it can be used.
Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day
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.
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
Great video Lawrence. I have used Clonezilla but never this way.
Thanks for making clonezilla easy to use!
So i can move physical to VM? cool i didnt know it can do that
Cool
Wow what a totally awesome video, thank you so much.
Is this still a go to method today?
Unless there is native support to migrate the VM to another platform then yes
@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS thank you
Thnx thnx thnx alooooot lot you saved me like so much search and find you
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?
CLonZilla is great, also clone a lot of Systems *thumbsup*
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 always get the error "ailed to access perfctr msr", when trying to start clonezilla in virtualbox
Thanks a lot Tom!
SUPER COOOOOL~~~~ It's very helpful~~~
Yeah I needed that a few days ago lol.. Couldn't find it.. Idk why
were you a senior system administrator before this channel ?
yes
Great vid. Thanks.
What is the difference between disk imaging and disk cloning and which is best where ?.
The mostly mean the same thing
great Video , Tks!
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.
I found a way to solve the problem described above. It´s a bypass but works great and you can clone any windows disk from a source computer to the XCP-NG VM disk using clonezilla.
@@BetoHertt whats the solution?
@@tepitokura I do it this way:
Create a new VM with a linux system, let´s say CentOS 7.
Add a disk with the same size or bigger than the on you are cloning from the windows machine.
Boot the VM CentOS 7 with clonezilla and do the same with the windows computer using a pen drive with clonezilla. Setup the clone to work on the network.
After the cloning finishes stop the VM CentOS machine and detach the disk from the VM CentOS.
Create a new VM with the same windows (delete or detach the disk created with the new VM) and attach the disk that came from the VM CentOS to the new VM Windows.
Start the new VM Windows and it should work ok.
I´ve cloned more than 10 Windows computers doing this way and it has worked pretty well so far.
Hope it helps.
@@BetoHertt thank you. I will try this method on monday.
Hi Lawrence!
Great video.
This technic work with phisical windows machine?
Thks in advance
Yes, it will work with physical or virtual severs.
@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Thks for you answer
why you dont use rescuezilla its the same but mutch more user friendly , keep it up with your videos
I did not know that project was revived, It was dead for a number of years.
@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS Rescuezilla is a new project that started in 2019 that extended the (at the time) abandoned Redo Backup & Restore. The project was dead and resurrected was "Redo Backup and Restore" which was renamed to "Redo Rescue."
Is there no encryption in transit?
hi tom, Nice video. How is this related to clonedeploy
don't think they are related
NICE..!!
Thanks
Can it be done with rescuezilla too? Thanks
Rescuezilla still requires the interim step of making an image. As far as I know they will be adding this in a future version.
@@Practical-IT ok, thanks
does this work with esxi?
yes
Those stupid "predictable" network interface names, predictably less predictable than what we had before...
Clonezilla is a very simple tool, if you want a more complete and permanent solution (also open source), the Fog Project does the job perfectly! fogproject.org
Yeah, used to use Fog a long time ago, great tool.
@@LAWRENCESYSTEMS it's great and saves a lot of time when you have to prepare more than 10 machines and also add them to active directory
linux p2v boot fails
First?