Leandro Guimaraes Faria Corcete DUTRA schrieb:
> Em Sex, 2007-05-25 às 13:01 +0200, Klaus Espenlaub escreveu:
>> Yes, you can only convert full disk images (not individual partitions) 
>> to VDI. The whole thing is a bit more complicated actually. The size 0 
>> error is due to vditool not being able to read directly from a device. 
>> vditool can only convert from a raw image file to a VDI file. So you 
>> have to create a full raw disk image file first.
> 
>       How to create a full raw disk image file first?

dd if=/dev/hda of=/path/to/lots/of/space/to/put/disk.img bs=64k

Will take a while, and cannot be placed on /hda obviously.

> 
> 
>> Will be better in 1.4 (no need to download vditool, the conversion is 
>> part of VBoxManage then, and if you specify the size it can read 
>> directly from a device). Also 1.4 will support raw disk/raw partition 
>> access
> 
>       When is it due?
> 

A couple of weeks.


-- 
Klaus Espenlaub     InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de

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