And just to clarify: taking a memory dump of a virtual machine is trivial. Just click on the &#x27;snapshot&#x27; button.<p>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&#x27;t override anything useful). In many jurisdictions you also have better protections in regards to required warrants and such for your own hardware.