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Transform an physical disk into a VM
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Boot with a LiveUSB

Run command on the LiveUSB environment:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=256M status=progress | pigz-c-p 4 | ssh [user]@[host] "gunzip -c > /mnt/disks/dev-nvme0n1.img"

Convert disk to qcow2 format

$ qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 /mnt/disks/dev-nvme0n1.img /mnt/disks/dev-nvme0n1.qcow2
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