Running a Clonezilla VM with Vmplayer - Partition recognition problem
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Distribution: Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS, Kali, MX Linux with i3WM
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Running a Clonezilla VM with Vmplayer - Partition recognition problem
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is actually possible but I've tried to run a Clonezilla VM using vmplayer. All works fine except when I get to the cloning section. I have three partitions on the HD; partition A, B and C.
A = Partition to clone
B = Partiton onto which the clone image of PartA is to be saved
C = OS partition which is running the Clonezilla VM.
I would like to save the partition as an image but when it actually comes to the nitty gritty of partition cloning Clonezilla does not recognise PartA or PartB. I get error massages along the lines of "No unmounted partitions found." When I drop into a shell prompt the fdisk -l output shows nothing. However, running from the liveCD it recognises both these along with PartC. Is there a way of carrying out the cloning using this method by tweaking vmplayer settings or is the project just not possible ?
Distribution: Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS, Kali, MX Linux with i3WM
Posts: 299
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Thanks jefro but when the Clonezilla reaches the cloning stage it asks which umounted partitons you want to clone and which unmounted partition you want to save the image to ( it automatically recognises unmounted partitions) In my case it is not recognising either of the two umnounted partitions ( or even the third on which the OS is actually running). Infact when I do fdisk -l I get no partitions shown at all. Hence, if it cannot recognise any unmounted partitons it cannot go ahead with the cloning. In my case there are two unmounted partitions; A, partition to clone ; and B the partition onto which to save the image. Unfortunately Vmplayer is not recognising either of them.
I don't know if Vmplayer guest can be configured that way but at least VMware Server allows you to set the scope of a VM to use whole disks (you don't want that) or several partitions of a disk.
this link solves the problem, clonzilla is only set up to recognise drives that are named sda or hda, not vda. Change the script on this page and you are good to go.
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