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trying to clone virtual server

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to clone a 'virtual' server running CentOS 5 from my host to a VM I am running at home for development. I was going to use dd to copy the disk but there appears to be no disk! I cannot physically access this server, so cannot boot from a disk.

Code:

[clay ~]: ls -l /dev | grep disk

brw-r----- 1 root disk 1,  0 Apr 13  2006 ram0

brw-r----- 1 root disk 1,  1 Apr 13  2006 ram1

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Feb  4  2008 ramdisk -> ram0

[clay ~]:

Why don't I see any disks? Is there another way I can proceed?
Thanks in advance!
-Clay

Quote:

Originally Posted by braclayrab (Post 3345949)

Code:

[clay ~]: ls -l /dev | grep disk

brw-r----- 1 root disk 1,  0 Apr 13  2006 ram0

brw-r----- 1 root disk 1,  1 Apr 13  2006 ram1

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Feb  4  2008 ramdisk -> ram0

[clay ~]:

Why don't I see any disks? Is there another way I can proceed?
Thanks in advance!
-Clay

They're probably not going to be called "disk" anything. Type in "df -k", and look at what you get. It'll probably be something like /dev/sda1, /dev/hdc2, etc.