Hi Everyone I am a total newbie to Vbox and I am trying to get it set up for the first time. I have a physical machine I am trying to convert into a virtual one.
I am trying to use vmware convert for this. I found a tutorial that showed how this could be done with these commands: _** *qemu*-img *convert* harddrive-name.*vmdk* -O raw-file*.bin* **LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/VirtualBox* ./vditool DD new-file.vdi old-file.bin http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/vmware-virtual-machine-to-virtual-box-conversion-how-to/ _ I am sorry to say I did not get very far. I used vmware convert but I ended up with several files rather then the one image I thought I would get. _ _Windows-lace-s001.vmdk Windows-lace-s002.vmdk Windows-lace-s003.vmdk etc etc.. Is there an easier way to do this with pure Vbox tools or could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance-Patrick Dmitry A. Kuminov wrote: > Jim Wight wrote: > > >> At the moment I can't see what use filters are. Can anyone provide an >> example of how they might be used? >> > > Indeed, USB filters are half-way done at the moment. AFAIR, the only > useful feature they provide is to distribute USB devices between VMs. In > other words, you can specify which VM the particular USB device should > be automatically given to when it is attached to the host computer or > when a VM is started and the device is already there. > > You can also set up a global filter (using VBoxManage) that will hide > matching devices from VMs, but it only applies to devices attached > during VM runtime -- global filters are skipped when processing already > attached devices. This makes them useless for your case (hiding > permanently attached devices). > > Anyway, the new USB filter design is planned and it will definitely take > the above issues into account. > > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
