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I'm afraid 8. won't do what you expect it to do. clonehd will create vdi that points to raw disk. That is it clones the "pointer" not actual data. It looks like dd is a must for partition.
– mlt
Commented Feb 4, 2015 at 11:01
One might think that, but it made a clone of the actual data. Step 7 created a ~1 KB image (that merely pointed to the raw disk), but the size of the image created in Step 8 was the size of all of the included partitions, in this case 40 GB. I also know it was a copy because when I boot to my Windows partition, it's different from the VM I created based on it, which I've made changes to. -rw------- 1 root root 40G Feb 4 09:28 windows.vdi -rw------- 1 root root 722 Feb 4 09:11 windows.vmdk
– bmaupin
Commented Feb 4, 2015 at 14:42

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