Create VM in unraid from existing bare-silicon debian install

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I am in the process of creating an unraid server, however the same physical server used to be running my plex server installed on debian on an SSD. Can I boot this debian install as a VM in unraid off that SSD? Or if it is easier instead boot unraid as a VM in debian? I am aware there is a plex package for unraid, but I really don't want to deal with migrating plex and all my addons for it.

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    • Use clonezilla to create an image of the Debian machine then create a VM in unraid and restore that image to the VM.

    To piggyback I can do the same thing for my Windows 10 machine, use Clonezilla and restore as VM before I wipe the physical machine to install 11?

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    You can pass through the SSD to the VM and boot it directly that way. I’ve done it a couple times both on a SATA SSD and NVMe.

    You can use veeam to make a backup and restore it to a vm.