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Linux ariel 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 19 00:37:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

We have a precious Hetzner Debian Lenny box and need to deploy it to Azure.

Is there a way to take an image of the box and install into an azure VM?

It contains an old python version, old custom python code, rabbitMQ & memcached that cannot be separately deployed today.

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Very much a summary of the post as linked bellow:

Shut down you debian box and boot a live linux on it (e.g. knoppix or ubuntu live cd)

Image the disk using dd and pipe the data through ssh, for example like this (whereby /dev/hdX is the devicenode of the physical HD you debian is installed on, and myserver is another box with enough storage to do your conversions on)

 $ dd if=/dev/hdX bs=4k conv=noerror,sync | ssh -c blowfish myuser@myserver 'dd of=myfile.dd'

Create the VHD image using VBoxManage

 $ VBoxManage convertfromraw myfile.dd myfile.vhd --format VHD

But as pointed out, this is a brief summary of a similar answer as linked here

How to create VHD disk image from a Linux live system?

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