So, next problem.
Now I have done the following:
On the old PC under Solaris 7/x86 I did:
dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0 of=disk0.raw bs=512
Then I copied the file to my new laptop, running Nevada build 84 with
VirtualBox, and there on the new laptop I did:
lofiadm -a /export/images/vbox_or_xvm/disk0.raw /dev/lofi/1
cd /opt/VirtualBox/
VBoxManage internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk /dev/rlofi/1
Output of that is:
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.5.51
(C) 2005-2008 innotek GmbH
All rights reserved.
Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect)
1 0x06 0 /1 /1 130 /254/63 1027 63
So, the diskimage is correct, and it contains a Window95 version!
(Here's the proof:
bash-3.2# mkdir /a
bash-3.2# mount -F pcfs /dev/lofi/1:c /a
bash-3.2# ls /a
ADOBEPS Eigene Dateien My Music XWIN32
AUTOEXEC.BAT Exchange Neue Software.lnk antje
Anti-Vir.Dat GSview PSP default.set
BOOTLOG.PRV IO.SYS Programme emacs
BOOTLOG.TXT LEADVIEW QTAKE euracom
COMMAND.COM LILO.TGZ RECYCLED gs
CONFIG.SYS LOGO.SYS SCANDISK.LOG iomega
DBLSPACE.BIN MACARONI SCSI liprefs.js
DETLOG.OLD MPEG SUHDLOG.DAT psfonts
DETLOG.TXT MSDOS.--- SYSTEM.1ST sun
DINFO2 MSDOS.SYS WINDOWS
DRVSPACE.BIN MSOffice WINPLAY3
bash-3.2# umount /a
bash-3.2# rmdir /a
)
Now, I want to add this to the list of images that VirtualBox can use:
According to the manual, I assume, that I should be able to do:
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename
/export/images/vbox_or_xvm/disk0.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/rlofi/1
or (see above for the mountpoint for /a!)
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename
/export/images/vbox_or_xvm/disk0.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/lofi/1
BUT (with both commands) the output is:
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.5.51
(C) 2005-2008 innotek GmbH
All rights reserved.
Error while creating the raw disk VMDK: VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER
So, what's wrong?
Here's the excerpt from the UserManual.pdf, Page 111/112:
To create an image that represents an entire physical hard disk (which
will not contain any actual data, as this will all be stored on the
physical disk), on a Linux host, use the command
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename
/path/to/file.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda
This creates the image /path/to/file.vmdk (must be absolute), and all
data will be read and written from /dev/sda.
Very confused!
Any help highly appreciated!
Matthias
I (Matthias Pfützner - Data Center Ambassador - Strategy and Technology) wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I do have a question, that I hope, you can help me with...
>
> I do have an old PC, with THREE disks:
>
> 1. disk is totally given to Win95
> 2. disk is totally givene to "files"
> 3. disk is partitioned into three (four) partitions, hosting Win98,
> SuSE 7.2, SuSE 7.2 swap, and Solaris 7.
>
> I now did boot Solaris on that box, and made "dumps" of the partitions as
> follows:
>
> dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p1 of=win95.raw bs=512
> dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0p1 of=temp.raw bs=512
> dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t2d0p1 of=win98.raw bs=512
> dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t2d0p2 of=suse72.raw bs=512
> dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t2d0p4 of=solaris7.raw bs=512
>
> Now, under OpenSolaris build 84, I try the following:
>
> lofiadm -a /path/to/win95.raw /dev/lofi/1
> VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename
> /path/to/win95.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/rlofi/1 -partitions 1
>
> and do get:
>
> # VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename
> /export/images/vbox_or_xvm/WIN95.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/rlofi/1 -partitions 1
> VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.5.51
> (C) 2005-2008 innotek GmbH
> All rights reserved.
>
> Overlapping partitions. Aborting
> Error reading the partition information from '/dev/rlofi/1'
> #
>
> Or:
>
> # VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename
> /export/images/vbox_or_xvm/WIN95.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/rlofi/1
> VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.5.51
> (C) 2005-2008 innotek GmbH
> All rights reserved.
>
> Error while creating the raw disk VMDK: VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER
> #
>
> So, I read the user-manual of the VirtualBox, and it seems, I really need the
> whole disk images, and not only the images of the partitions. So, i guess, I
> should have done:
>
> dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0 of=disk0.raw bs=512
> dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0p0 of=disk1.raw bs=512
> dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t2d0p0 of=disk2.raw bs=512
>
> Right?
>
> So, my questions are:
>
> Is the the only way to "handle" raw disks?
> Or is there a way to re-use the "dump" of a partition as an image for
> VirtualBox?
>
> BTW: I can do the following:
>
> # mkdir /a
> # mount -F pcfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /a
> # ls /a
> ADOBEPS Eigene Dateien My Music XWIN32
> AUTOEXEC.BAT Exchange Neue Software.lnk antje
> Anti-Vir.Dat GSview PSP default.set
> BOOTLOG.PRV IO.SYS Programme emacs
> BOOTLOG.TXT LEADVIEW QTAKE euracom
> COMMAND.COM LILO.TGZ RECYCLED gs
> CONFIG.SYS LOGO.SYS SCANDISK.LOG iomega
> DBLSPACE.BIN MACARONI SCSI liprefs.js
> DETLOG.OLD MPEG SUHDLOG.DAT psfonts
> DETLOG.TXT MSDOS.--- SYSTEM.1ST sun
> DINFO2 MSDOS.SYS WINDOWS
> DRVSPACE.BIN MSOffice WINPLAY3
> #
>
> So, the file itself is a real dump of the FAT32 part of the disk!
>
> Curious,
> Matthias
>
> P.S.: Some more infos:
>
> fdisk c0t0d0p0:
>
> Total disk size is 131 cylinders
> Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks
>
> Cylinders
> Partition Status Type Start End Length %
> ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
> 1 Active DOS-BIG 0 130 131 100
>
>
>
>
> fdisk c0t1d0p0:
>
> Total disk size is 131 cylinders
> Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks
>
> Cylinders
> Partition Status Type Start End Length %
> ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
> 1 DOS-BIG 0 130 131 100
>
>
>
>
> fdisk c0t2d0p0:
>
> Total disk size is 8188 cylinders
> Cylinder size is 1090 (512 byte) blocks
>
> Cylinders
> Partition Status Type Start End Length %
> ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
> 1 DOS-BIG 0 2726 2727 33
> 2 Linux native 2726 5231 2506 31
> 3 Solaris 5232 5453 222 3
> 4 Active Solaris 5453 8179 2727 33
>
> (Remark: The small "Solaris" partition is the Linux Swap partition!)
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Matthias Pfützner
Datacenter Ambassador
Solution Architect N1, High Availability
Systems Practice Tel: +49 6103 752-394 (x65394)
Sun Microsystems GmbH Mobile: +49 172 8428766
Ampèrestraße 6 Fax: +49 6103 752-167
63225 Langen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Germany http://blogs.sun.com/pfuetz
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Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028
Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Bömer
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
***********************************************************************
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Stand B33
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