Hi, Just a quick idea: From host do a dd if=hostdevice | ssh guest dd of=guestdevice
Regards, Peter On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 11:01, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to resurrect this but I've finally found some time to do it > (maybe)... > > > > The nice manual explains how to do it in section 9.8 > > > > > Thanks Alan, that's half way to what I want to do. However it sounds > > as if the above describes how to use the *actual* disk as a > VirtualBox > > image, > > Indeed > > > I want to create an independent copy of the OS which I can > > modify without changing the original on the hard disk partition. > > > > If I do what's descrbed in section 9.8 of the manual can I then > *copy* > > that virtual machine to a 'normal' VirtualBox image? > > Sure. Boot any Linux in Vbox (even a live iso), and include both the > Win 'image' as described above, and a new VDI that is large enough. > Then you can just dd between them. > > > So, I'm not *quite* clear what I have to do, is the following correct:- > > Start my normal VirtualBox which runs on a Linux (xubuntu) machine. > > Install/run a new (to me anyway, I don't have any Linux virtual > machines at the moment) Linux virtual machine. > > Then, using the Linux virtual machine I copy the Win7 image (which > is the real Win7 partition on the hard disk) to a new 'empty' VDI > which I have created in the same VirtualBox installation that the > Linux virtual machine is running in. > > I'm not at all convinced I have the above correct as it seems to me > that the Linux virtual machine shouldn't be able to see anything > outside itself. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'include' > above? > > -- > Chris Green > > > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected] > ?subject=unsubscribe >
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