The following explains how to clone a Debian 7 Linux physical machine and run it on Proxmox VE 4.2.
All operations are done from MacOS X. The Proxmox distro is installed on an Intel NUC hardware.
- Download a Clonezilla Live .iso from here: http://clonezilla.org/downloads/download.php?branch=stable
- Insert USB key and run
diskutil listfrom the terminal to ifentify the device name - Identify the USB disk device name, for example
/dev/disk4 - Unmount / eject the USB disk using umount or Disk Utility
- Copy the .iso disk image to the USB key. Warning, make sure you point to the right disk and make sure not to erase your own hard drive with this command.
sudo dd if=/tmp/clonezilla-live.iso of=/dev/diskXXXX
Press ctrl+t to check progress.
This command will output all the disk attached to the system, you should be able to match up the USB stick to the specs and name of one listed. To get the raw device, you can add an 'r' in front of the name, ex. /dev/disk4 would become /dev/rdisk4. Next you will an to open Disk Utility and eject each partition only (If you eject from Finder or the Desktop it will eject the entire disk, removing it completely from the system).
Now we can convert the ISO and copy the new image over with. Note hdiutil will commonly add the .dmg extension to the output file, so you will end up pve-cd.img.dmg
hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o pve-cd.img pve-cd.iso
sudo dd if=pve-cd.img.dmg of=/dev/rXYZ