How to copy / clone a VM on a physical disk ?

[harryMacdouglas]

Hello,

I have a Virtual Machine on a distant server that I want to clone with the exact amount of data into a physical disk.

I tried to dd the command to copy the virtual image and tried to transfert ip to another distant machine through a ssh connection.

dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -1 - | ssh user@IP.ADD.RE.SS dd of=/path/save/location/image.gz

after i just installed it into the disk with command dd and then when i tried to boot on it,
the system crashed with the grub program.

Is there a way to manage it ?

 

[Matthias.]

You could backup it to a PBS and restore it to the other server

 

[harryMacdouglas]

Thank you for your answer.
Well actualy, I found another way to do it.
I found that I could clone the VM in rawdisk format which is compatible with the command dd
Thanks!