On 10/05/2011 02:28 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> I have the following problem, I switched from a windows 7-only
> installation to
> a dual boot with Linux (after shrinking the windows partition).
>
> Now I wanted to install windows 7 as virtual machine on Linux, and it
> turns out
> that we don't have the phisical media so I have to use the same
> installation.
>
> Is there a way to convert the partition /dev/sda3 to a virtualbox?
>
> I followed the guide here (also about stdin)
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows
>
> and it creates the vdi correctly which then doesn't work anyway.
> Has anyone succeeded in anything like that?
Noone managed to do what I would like to do?
I still didn't find any other (so VboxManage convertFromRaw method), if
I try to open the VDI I get:
Failed to open the hard disk /home/andrea/Win7.vdi.
The medium '/home/andrea/Win7.vdi' can't be used as the requested device
type.
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Medium
Interface: IMedium {53f9cc0c-e0fd-40a5-a404-a7a5272082cd}
Callee: IVirtualBox {c28be65f-1a8f-43b4-81f1-eb60cb516e66}
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