[ale] Clonezilla?

[Alex Carver]

Do you really need Clonezilla for cloning a VM? Most VMs are stored in 
just a few files so you really only need to transfer those instead of 
trying to clone the VM from inside itself while running.

At least that's the case with VirtualBox that I use on some work 
computers. There's a .vbox file (machine definition file, the VM 
settings) and a .vdi file (virtual disk image) that contains all the 
data. I just copy those two files to another machine then open 
VirtualBox on that machine, point to the files, and I'm up and running.

As for your transfer issue, make sure that you are able to cross from 
one machine to the other just in case a control port is not making it 
across to provide appropriate discovery information for the session.

On 2025-10-22 21:03, Allen Beddingfield via Ale wrote:
> Believe it or not, I've never actually used Clonezilla - so this is my first go.  I'm assuming we've probably got some here with experience using it.
> Essentially, I'm just trying to do a basic clone of one VM to another across the network - with them both being on the same subnet/no firewall in between..
> 
> Here is what I'm trying, and what is happening:
> 
> I boot the source VM, select "remote-source Enter source mode of remote device cloning",
> then I select "Beginner" for the mode, then "disk_to_remote_disk", then dhcp,
> sync the time to ntp, then select the desk, skip fsck, select "use the partition table
> from the source disk", select "no" on the option to copy the Clonezilla logs,
> then select "choose" for the action after completion.
> 
> It then proceeds to listen on a different port for each partition on the disk:
> ports 9015,9021,9027, and 9033
> 
> On the destination server, I select "remote-dest Enter destination mode of remote device cloning",
> I go through the dhcp setup, and give it the ip address of the source server on
> the same subnet, the I select "restoredisk Restore a disk image (restore entire hard disk),
> I select the local disk, and go through the verification that I want to overwrite it.
> 
> It then starts two "nc" commands to the ip of the source, but on ports 9003 and 9009.
> There is nothing listening on those ports, as the source is listening on 9015,9021, 9027, and 9033.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  I assume something is supposed to tell the destination
> what ports to try?  I don't have any option to specify the ports to attempt the
> restore from on the destination side.
> 
> Thanks.
> Allen B.
> 
> 
> 
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