HiMatthias, > Build vbox? No need to! Just install vbox!
Whether install VBox on Fedora 12 (the host of the running Virtual Machine)? Can VBox and KVM coexist running side by side? Others noted with thanks. My purpose to convert KVM VM to VBox VM is solely to learn this technique. Particularly I'm interested to learn dumping a running physical box as VM. Personally I prefer clean installation. B.R. Stephen ________________________________ From: Matthias Pfützner <matthias.pfuetz...@sun.com> To: sati...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-users@virtualbox.org Sent: Sat, February 20, 2010 9:54:55 AM Subject: Re: [vbox-users] Convert KVM to VirtualBox -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Stephen Liu <sati...@yahoo.com> > Gesendet: 20.2.'10, 16:28 > > Hi Matthias, > > Thanks for your advice. > > I'm prepared to build VBox on the same PC which is now running KVM and Fedora > 12 64bit as host. Because Fedora 12 freezes frequently while browsing > Internet. Adding to it I can't make libvirt to allow VM to work on sound. > Therefore I'll wipe out the PC and build VBox on it running Debian 5.0.4 > 64bit as host. Build vbox? No need to! Just install vbox! >> Still, you might encounter difficulties with different hw-abstraction >> layers (aka different >> drivers!) between kvm and vbox > Please explain in more detail. TIA Every virtualization is an abstraction of some specific hardware! KVM does NOT abstract to a common, specific model, it simply uses, what's there! So, you need to use the device driver for the physically available network-interface, and not a "virtualized", "generic" interface. Vbox has a specific set of hardware elements, that are "emulazed", VMware has a different set, and therefore moving a guest from one virtualization to a different one requires different drivers in the guest. That get's specifically nasty, once the interface for your boot-disk changes (IDE <-> SCSI <-> SATA). And it even gets more complicated, once you use a virtualization, that doesn't abstract the hardware (like KVM), but simply manages (limits, controls) access to the real hardware... Matthias > B.R. > Stephen > > > > > --------------- > From: Matthias Pfützner <matthias.pfuetz...@sun.com> > To: sati...@yahoo.com > Cc: vbox-users@virtualbox.org > Sent: Sat, February 20, 2010 6:54:48 AM > Subject: Re: [vbox-users] Convert KVM to VirtualBox > > Qemu-img should be part of vbox, and should be documented in the vbox user > guide... > > Still, you might encounter difficulties with different hw-abstraction layers > (aka different drivers!) between kvm and vbox... > > 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 > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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