Creating a virtualbox image over network

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# Set up source machine

0. Optional, ssh support and lzo
sudo bash
add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) universe"
apt-get update
apt-get install ssh lzop
1. Boot Ubuntu USB stick
2. Run fdisk -l to figure out which drive to clone and how many bytes it has

Example:
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders, total 78165360 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1744b9d1

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *       16065    78156224    39070080    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

# Send the dd over network

On target:
nc -l 7777 | gzip -d | VBoxManage convertfromraw stdin remote.vdi 40020664320
nc -l 7777 | bunzip2 -vvv | VBoxManage convertfromraw stdin remote.vdi 40020664320
nc -l 7777 | lzop -d | VBoxManage convertfromraw stdin remote.vdi 40020664320

alt if you just want dd. nc -l 7777 | bunzip2 -vvv > remote.dd

On source:
dd bs=16M if=/dev/sda | gzip | nc 192.168.7.188 7777
dd bs=16M if=/dev/sda | bzip2 -vv9 | nc 192.168.7.188 7777
dd bs=1M if=/dev/sda | lzop | nc 192.168.7.188 7777

# Monitoring omn source
pgrep -l '^dd$'
watch -n 10 kill -USR1 PID