>From the VB manual: 5.2 Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD)
Disk image files reside on the host system and are seen by the guest systems as hard disks of a certain geometry. When a guest operating system reads from or writes to a hard disk, VirtualBox redirects the request to the image file. Note that when you create an image file, its size needs to be specified, which rep- resents a fixed geometry of the virtual disk. It is therefore not possible to change the size of the virtual hard disk later. VirtualBox supports four variants of disk image files: • Normally, VirtualBox uses its own container format for guest hard disks – Virtual Disk Image (VDI) files. In particular, this format will be used when you create a new virtual machine with a new disk. • VirtualBox also fully supports the popular and open VMDK container format that is used by many other virtualization products, in particular, by VMware.3 • VirtualBox also fully supports the VHD format used by Microsoft. • Image files of Parallels version 2 (HDD format) are also supported.4 For lack of documentation of the format, newer formats (3 and 4) are not supported. You can however convert such image files to version 2 format using tools provided by Parallels. On 1 Dec, 19:48, Pat Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't know if this helps... > > http://benfrain.com/notepad/2009/03/osx-converting-parallels-or-vmwar... > > > > Phil Tomlinson wrote: > > Hi > > Firstly thank you to all those who advised me about how to access Windows - > > I've now downloaded Virtual Box. However, I don't know how to get it to see > > my copy of Windows XP which is still in the Parallels folder in Documents. > > Would I have to reinstall Windows by disk? (Not possible since I no longer > > have the copy of Windows) Is there any way around this dilemma? I've > > launched Virtualbox but cannot find instructions how to get the Windows > > operating system onto it! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG -www.avg.com > > Version: 9.0.709 / Virus Database: 270.14.88/2538 - Release Date: 12/01/09 > > 07:59:00 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
