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
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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
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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
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