On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 21:48, Steve Wray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've found some documentation on how to convert Xen virtual machines to > virtualbox but these make some assumptions which are not universally valid. > > The problem I have is that, instead of using the 'container' based virtual > machines (ie a file which contains a partition table and partitions for a > number of disks) we use filesystem based virtual machines. > > In these VMs the root filesystem of the virtual machine under Xen is a > logical volume under LVM and the VMs filesystem can be directly mounted on > the host (while the VM isn't running, of course). > > Also a lot of the documentation uses VMWare converter. Thats not going to > work out as it appears to be a Windows-only application. > > I've got a tarball of one of these root filesystems and I'd quite like to > get it running under virtualbox. > > Any ideas please? > > Thanks. >
Soposing you are talking about a Linux guest... If you have a tarball of the filesystem, "all" you would have to do is copy it over a new VirtualBox machine. A regular Linux installs does just that: copy a bunch of files to the disk and installs grub. So, my idea: boot the VirtualBox VM with a rescue cd, format the disk and extract the tarball you have on it. Configure grub on the new hard disk and you should be ready to go. You probably you also have to provide the VM with another kernel, since yours is for Xen (thou it might boot without it as well, I'm not sure). Also, you might encounter some problems if the kernel you used is very specific to the Xen environment, so you might be missing some drivers needed to boot on a VirtualBox environment. Hope this helps! _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
