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by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 3836 days ago
And just to clarify: taking a memory dump of a virtual machine is trivial. Just click on the 'snapshot' button.

On a physical machine, you have to plug in a dumping device into a DMA-capable port, cool down the RAM and move it to another machine as fast as possible, or reset the machine and boot it from another medium (hoping the BIOS didn't override anything useful). In many jurisdictions you also have better protections in regards to required warrants and such for your own hardware.