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I want to move my Ubuntu 13.04 into the VirtualBox storage. Paragon Backup & Recovery can prepare Windows for moving into virtual storage. But I cannot find any analogue for Linux.

Can you give me advice, please?

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    How do you have your Ubuntu 13.04 installation installed now? Try to be a lot more specific: partition size, partition type, dual boot (yes/no), etc. With specific details it's possible to provide some steps into converting the installation. If it's on a dedicated physical disk, then it's fairly easy. – gertvdijk Jun 20 '13 at 09:08
  • The [question I closed this as a duplicate of](http://askubuntu.com/questions/34802/convert-my-physical-operating-system-to-a-virtualbox-disk) should still work. You may need to boot into a LiveCD/USB environment to mirror the disk accurately and save that to the Windows disk (which you'll need to mount before running the `dd` command) but then you can just convert the raw image to a VDI once you're in Windows. – Oli Jun 20 '13 at 09:52
  • Also: doesn't VirtualBox allow mounting real partitions as virtual disks? If it does, wouldn't that be better? Edit: see http://www.sysprobs.com/access-physical-disk-virtualbox-desktop-virtualization-software – Oli Jun 20 '13 at 09:54
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    Sure, VirtualBox can use a real partition: http://askubuntu.com/a/192371/3940 – Takkat Jun 20 '13 at 10:13

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