"ferrol aderholdt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > couldn't you just use dd? > so do something like: > dd /dev/sda myimage.raw bs=1M > then use qemu-img to convert to .vmdk (virtualbox can read these): > qemu-img convert -f raw myimage.raw -O vmdk > then rename if qemu-img doesnt: > mv myimage.raw myimage.vmdk > start up virtualbox, create your machine, set the hard drive to myimage.vmdk > and pray > *NOTE: as i'm not sure about the instructions above, you might want to check > out the man pages on them. but might > work... worth a shot atleast :)
When doing raw copies of filesystems like this, resist the temptation to shrink the sizes of the "containers". If this really takes too much space, resize partitions BEFORE anything else. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
