Parallels

You can use Parallels Transporter to migrate physical computer to a virtual machine. Parallels Transporter is always available on our website in Download section:

Parallels Desktop for Mac  - Download Transporter Agent
Parallels Desktop for Windows and Linux - Download Transporter Agent
Parallels Server Bare Metal - Download Transporter Agent
Parallels Server for Mac - Download Transporter Agent
 

Please check system requirements for Parallels Transporter Agent and make sure that your Linux OS is supported. Parallels Transporter does not support migrating  Linux logical volumes (LVM). If the file system is not supported, Parallels Transporter copies all disk sectors successively and you may experience some problems with using the resulting virtual machine.
 

If your Linux OS is not supported by Parallels Transporter but supported in Parallels Desktop or Parallels Server you can try the workaround below:
 

1. On source Linux computer open Terminal

2. Type su - or sudo -s to gain root privileges.

3. Run command fdisk -l to get disk device name. Example output:

You can see that disk where OS is installed on  is /dev/sda (we consider the whole disk, not slices /dev/sda1/ or /dev/sda2/ )

4. Attach external USB drive or network share (any destination with necessary disk space), in our sample /media/USB_drive/

5. Enter the following command that will make an image of the disk:

Note: We are dumping the whole disk /dev/sda, not the slice /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2 where Linux OS is installed.

6. After dd utility has finished image creation (it may take time to dump the whole drive, depending on its size.) Start Parallels Image Tool > Select ResultingImage.hdd file and convert it to a new format.

7. Create Virtual Machine configuration file using New Virtual Machine Assistant in Parallels Desktop/Server:

- OS Type = Linux
- Custom mode
- and attach ResultingImage.hdd file.

8. Try to start virtual machine.
 

Note: the .hdd file will be the same size as your  real Hard disk, i.e. if you have 250 GB hard disk where Fedora is installed so your resulting hard disk image will be 250GB in size.