Hi,

Is there a way to run a guest VM directly from a raw disk image? I
need to switch my guest VM between QEMU and VirtualBox quite frequent,
so it will be time consuming if I have to convert between VDI and RAW
format every time I do a switch.

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk
The document listed above is very close to what I am looking for.
However, the command check if the argument of -rawdisk option is
actually a block device. So I cannot use a raw disk image file.
Although, I might be able to use a loop mount device to solve this
issue. However, I don't have root or mount permission on my machine so
I cannot use this solution.

Any suggestion?


PS. I am using VirtualBox 3.1.6


-- 
Thawan Kooburat

Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
UW-Madison

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