Full VMDK Support... UHU! Way to go dudes! ;) On 4/20/07, Klaus Espenlaub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Helge Hielscher schrieb: > > Is there a tool that can compact unregistered images? > > Unfortunately not. You're working with vditool, and the DD function > always creates a fixed image. So you wouldn't be able to compact it. And > no, there is no tool to convert a fixed into a sparse image or vice > versa. It wouldn't be hard to do (just like editing the vditool source), > but it's just not implemented yet. > > In principle compacting unregistered images is possible with "vditool > SHRINK", but obviously this doesn't reduce the size for a fixed image. > If you know what you're doing you can use a binary file editor and > change the 2 at offset 0x4c to 1. After that it's a sparse image and you > can compact it. > > > Is there a way to bypass the large vdi file in the conversion process, e.g > > using sparse-file, convert and compact in one step? > > Right now this is not possible. And in one of the next versions the > problem will hopefully become obsolete, as we're intending to have full > vmdk support. So qemu-img should be able to convert VHD images directly > to vmdk. > > -- > Klaus Espenlaub InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >
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