On 14/05/2014 18:33, Klaus Espenlaub wrote: > François, > > On 14.05.2014 18:23, François Revol wrote: >> On 14/05/2014 18:12, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote: >>> Dear developers, >>> Do You think, that somebody of us would try to develop little >>> application, which would be able to convert .vdi virtual harddisk image >>> to Theraw image format? >>> .img My next Question is. >>> Why it is not possible to change The size of virtual harddisk if it is >>> created by using Oracle vmvirtual box GUI? >>> Thank You very much for Yours answer. >>> If You know about free procedure for Windows or Linux, which would >>> enable me to convert .vdi harddisk to .img raw image format please let >>> me know. >> >> While the VBoxManage "convertfromraw" subcommand is documented in the >> manual, there is also the opposite but it is stuffed in a >> developper-related subcommand: >> >> vboxmanage internalcommands converttoraw > > nooo... don't point people at very limited and deliberately > hidden/undocumented commands. This command can't handle image chains > (which means it will produce complete garbage if you point it at some > file corresponding to a snapshot). > > I can't undo this well meant (but unfortunately not ideal) advice, but > please don't go this way. > > VBoxManage clonehd <src> <dst> --format RAW > > is the proper way, and documented. >
Thanks for correcting, I didn't notice clonehd could do this. François. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
