A Linux PC currently died due to a motherboard failure. The Harddisk,  however,is still working.I transplanted the disk into another Linux machine and found that everything was readable.Now I want to revive the old PC, but as a VM.Is this possible to do without first having to convert the disk to an image file,  i.e. running with the existing disk? I do not know yet if KVM or LXC is a better choice, but would prefer LXC because the host PC is rather slow.Is this possible? My experience with VM deployment is rather limited...BTW,  both computers run Gentoo Linux.EDITEDThanks for now for all answers. To clarify matters, the main reason I need the harddisk to run some kind of virtual machine is that the old computer was the main coda server of a small coda cluster. I cannot (easily) get the data out of the raw vice partitions, so just running a container might be the easiest way.The host computer is very restricted concerning hardware capabilities, so just cloning the disk via dd will not work - not enough space (!) (don't ask why :-/ -  a rather strange setup).Furthermore, the old PC used LVM also. The various partitions and LVM LVs can, however, be mounted on the new host computer quite well - the data are there, and once I even accidentally booted the new host computer with the old disk as userland (new kernel, old userland) - worked, so the systems are quite similar.The charme of an LXC setup would be that it does not need as much resources.The downside is that I have no idea if the CODA servers will run nicely when in a   container - so putting them into a full VM may be safer.
How can I revive a dead Linux PC as a vm?
linux;virtual machine