Hi Klaus,
Thanks for your advice. > VirtualBox comes with its own set of tools for converting images, and about the only format which it > doesn't support is qcow2. There was simply no demand for it. VirtualBox supports VDI, VMDK and > VHD already, all of them in a rather complete fashion: creating images, reading, writing. vConverter on VMWare can convert qcow2 as vdi. Can the file thus converted be read in VBox? TIA B.R. Stephen ________________________________ From: Klaus Espenlaub <klaus.espenl...@sun.com> To: vbox-users@virtualbox.org Cc: sati...@yahoo.com Sent: Mon, February 22, 2010 8:40:39 PM Subject: Re: [vbox-users] Convert KVM to VirtualBox Matthias Pfützner wrote: > Qemu-img should be part of vbox, and should be documented in the vbox user > guide... Not really sure if I agree on this. qemu-img might be able to read/write more formats, however back in the days when VirtualBox had no VMDK support I made the experience that the VMDK code in qemu-img was far from VMware-compatible. Might have changed. VirtualBox comes with its own set of tools for converting images, and about the only format which it doesn't support is qcow2. There was simply no demand for it. VirtualBox supports VDI, VMDK and VHD already, all of them in a rather complete fashion: creating images, reading, writing. The plug-in interface for disk image formats is well documented and rather straightforward, There are a number of existing samples, i.e. the source code of the already existing image formats. > Still, you might encounter difficulties with different hw-abstraction layers > (aka different drivers!) between kvm and vbox... That's true. Depending on the guest OS there are more or less severe assumptions about the virtual hardware in the disk image file. Klaus > > Matthias > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com> >> Gesendet: 20.2.'10, 15:20 >> >> Hi Karthik, >> >> Thanks for your advice. >> >> I found following doc on Internet; >> How to Convert a KVM to a VDI >> http://www.ehow.com/how_5856610_convert-kvm-vdi.html >> >> However I read in another place saying running qemu-img to convert VM will >> be easier. I'm now searching how to make it with qemu-img >> >> B.R. >> Stephen L >> >> >> >> --------------- >> From: Karthik Balaguru <karthikbalagur...@gmail.com> >> To: Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com>; vbox-users@virtualbox.org >> Sent: Sat, February 20, 2010 6:10:18 AM >> Subject: Re: [vbox-users] Convert KVM to VirtualBox >> >> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> What will be the easy way converting KVM (qcow2) to VirtualBox (vdi)? >>> >>> Can VMDK format (VMWare) works on VirtualBox ? >>> >> >> Your question sounds similar to trying to open Windows Visio drawings >> file in OOo Draw . >> That is, if vmdk format is openly available, then i think, it should >> be possible. >> Not sure. But, i wonder the kind of efforts would be required to design it ? >> >> Karthik Balaguru >> >> Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > vbox-users@virtualbox.org > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users -- Dr. Klaus Espenlaub Sun Microsystems GmbH Werkstrasse 24 71384 Weinstadt Germany ===================================================================== Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering ===================================================================== Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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