good morning everyone.
I have a few issue and i wonder if someone can help.

My goal is to create a virtual machine from a physical one.

ok, so the following steps tell you what I did

1) I started to install oracle virtualbox running on my linux knoppix (installation ok)

2) I create a virtual machine running windows XP (working good)

3) for some reason I can get access to internet from the virtual machine (windows XP), but I can live with that, any idea would be great

4) I create a share folder among host knoppix e guest windows XP (working good)

5) I d like to migrate my physical linux knoppix to a virtual machine ( just in case my old laptop collapse and then I have to spend 3 days to rebuild all)

regarding point 5 I was thinking what I can do that on a easy way, so my answer is to run some program from guest windows XP (program like vmware converter, if I m not wrong can only run on windows platforms) and from this program convert knoppix into virtual.
one problem I have is that this software (I suppose) needs internet connection to be installed (but as I said my internet connection doesn t work in guest) so there is first problem.

if I decide to go on other ways what i m asking is: is there any other program o some trick to go around this obstacle?

anyway, thank you in advance for any help.

I don't know how you set up your network, but using the default NAT there should be no problem. Perhaps you mapped the VM's network interface to the wrong host interface?
I doubt that Windows XP running inside a VM is the right tool to convert the host's operating system to a virtual machine. I am also not sure if a VMware tool is perfectly suited to generate a VirtualBox VM (though it does seem that Virtualbox works with VMware image files).

Since Knoppix is Debian-based, I would google, for example, Debian p2v virtualbox, and would find instructions like this one.

DISCLAIMER: I have not done this, and I don't know if the instructions I found fit your case.

confusing.

what do you really want to achieve?

this:
suggests that you merely want a full backup of your knoppix?
for that you don't need virtual machines or any virtualisation at all.
a simple dd command can do that.
if that's what you want, just say so and we'll walk you through it.

thank you very much for the answers.

ok let s try to go in order.

my goal is to create a virtual machine of my knoppix physical pc without using a dd command.
the apparent reason is that i m planning to assemble at same stage a much better desktop machine and then after installing a new linux SO, run again virtualbox and from virtualbox load knoppix virtual machine (which is physical at the moment and running another virtual machine (windows XP)).
the real reason i m trying to do that is that I have anything better to do, and after killing a couple of plants in the garden, my wife order me to go and play with my computer, so, here we are.

NAT network connection should be fine, I agree, I notice also that the icon inside windows Xp related to a wireless network disappear, so I can t see all the available network.

regarding VM tool I have the same question, I m not sure of anything, in any case I manage to install this tool in windows Xp and I m going to try and let you know the result.

thank you again for the answers.

goodmorning

ok I tried to do the job but of course I can t do it because there is no connection in windows Xp.

the wireless icon is missing so now my problem is to read wireless network from my windows xp virtual machine

any help wold be great

thank you

I don’t think that a Windows XP VM will help you with your P2V project.

Having said that, why don’t you use the wired network connection in the Windows VM?

EDIT: Searching for virtualbox wireless lan yielded this Quora question with insightful answers. In short, there is no virtual WIFI interface.

Thank you for the information
I haven t got much time to read it properly but I ll do it as soon as I can
Anyway thank you again