import2vbox: import cloud images or any disk image in virtualbox / vmWare

[Emmanuel Kasper]

Hi,
I needed this for Vagrant but I tought it might be useful for others.
https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/import2vbox

Suppose you created a disk image jessie.raw with the tool of your choice,

vmdebootstrap \
        --size 10G \
        --distribution jessie \
        --grub \
        --arch amd64 \
        --enable-dhcp \
        --image jessie.raw

You can create a OVF VirtualMachine description based on your disk image
with:
import2vbox --memory 4096 jessie.raw

And import it straight away:
VBoxManage import jessie.ovf

This could be useful if you want to run a disk image in a environment
where Qemu/KVM is not available.

Emmanuel