P2V migration is described in http://wiki.openvz.org/Physical_to_VE,
that involves some manual tuning.

V2P is also possible but don't make much sense to me -- it's way better
to use VE than a real server.

Stefan Kok wrote:
> Hi List
>
> I am brand new to OpenVZ. I will get straight to the point.
>
> I want to  backup physical servers on remote sites with tar/dump and
> restore them at our central office to  virtual machine.  Once disaster
> strikes move the virtual server to a new physical server and transport
> it to the remote office. 
>
>
> My question: 
>
> 1) Is this possible (backup physical server and restore to virtual) ?
> 2) If so is there any documentation / HOWTO's or pointers that you could
> give please ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> Stefan.
>