This is a short tutorial how to migrate an OpenVZ container to a KVM Guest. Some ideas have been taken from other tutorials (1 and 2), the other half has been extracted from grml-debootstrap which can generate a KVM guest by using debootstrap. # form where to where migrate # don't forget the trailing / on the source! export SOURCE=/srv/vz/private/xxxxxxx/ # an empty LVM volume! export DEST=/dev/mapper/vg0-myfirstvm # create some magic for grub/partion table echo 4 66 | /usr/share/grml-debootstrap/bootgrub.