Boniforti Flavio schrieb: > Luis Gallardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've never done it before, but you could convert your real pc using >> VMWare Converter, then convert it to raw with "qemu-img convert", and >> finally convert it to vdi using vditool. (don't forget compact it!!) > > Well... I got VMWare Converter, I managed to get QEMU for Windows > (http://www1.interq.or.jp/~t-takeda/qemu/qemu-0.9.0-windows.zip) and I hope > it's > the right one... now, where do I get vditool??? And, how should I proceed to > get > a compacted image then?
vditool is available at http://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/vditool.exe (this link refers to the Windows version, strip .exe for the Linux one). vditool is actually an internal development tool, and its raw/VDI conversion functionality will be available through VBoxManage in the next version. However vditool always creates a fixed size image. So no chance of compacting the image afterwards. A while ago I wrote how to hack the VDI file to make it a dynamically expanding image (which can be compacted), but I think I don't need to repeat that here, as the probability of having a hex file editor installed which can handle huge files is much smaller on Windows than on Linux (where it is already small). It is planned for the next version to create dynamically expanding images when converting from raw images, but there are so many things pending (especially direct VMDK support by VirtualBox) so that I won't guarantee that fix will be in 1.4. -- Klaus Espenlaub InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
