CentOS - May 2020 - Create Virtualbox image from running system?

I see that Microsoft has a utility that (apparently) can read a running system
and create an image that can then be imported and run on Virtualbox.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

"You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones
being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk
different than ones being converted)."

Is there anything that does the same thing for Linux, and can image a system
like that while it's actually running?

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On May 15, 2020, at 22:30, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>
wrote:
> 
> ?I see that Microsoft has a utility that (apparently) can read a running
system and create an image that can then be imported and run on Virtualbox.
> 
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd
> 
> "You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even
ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk
different than ones being converted)."
> 
> Is there anything that does the same thing for Linux, and can image a
system like that while it's actually running?
I doubt CentOS has anything for virtualbox, you should check with Oracle there.

But you can use virt-p2v to create a KVM image.  It needs to be run from a
rescue disk or livecd though.

http://libguestfs.org/virt-p2v.1.html

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