On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:50:01 +0100
Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malate...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Dr. Ed Morbius <dredmorb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > on 14:54 Wed 02 Mar, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 02 March 2011 01:59:50 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
> >>
> >> > Why would one chose one over the other?
> >>
> >> OT but, Vbox is gpl and in Debians repositoriies.
> >
> > Well, yeah, besides the obvious I meant.
> >
> > I've schlepped over the *.vmwarevm trees from my OSX box (primary use:
> > serving as a VMWare Fusion platform) and will muck with getting them
> > going on VBox.
> >
> > There's ye olde "Oh, but I selected SCSI for hard drive format" issue, I
> > suspect that's not a big issue, though I also suspect that WinXP will
> > make it one. Grumble. And largely OT.
>
> Maybe one thing. I have not been able to directly use a system that
> was on a partition. VMWare has a tool to convert a physical system to
> a virtual one.
> For VirtualBox, I had to boot each system (WinXP&Win7) and use
> disk2vhd to convert the running system to a virtual image.
> VB recognize /almost/ directly the VHD file (you have to use
> virtualbox-ose-fuse >= 4.0 to open the VHD image as filesystem).
>
jag@jag-tp:~$ cat bin/mkrawwmdk.sh
#!/bin/sh
VMDKPATH=/data/virtual/VDI/
if [ -z $1 ] ; then
echo must give vmdk-filename, without extension
exit 1
else
VMDK=$1
echo using dmvk-filename ${VMDKPATH}${VMDK}.vmdk
fi
if [ -z $2 ] ; then
echo must give devicename , e.g /dev/sdc
exit 1
else
DISK=$2
echo using disk ${DISK}
fi
if [ -z $3 ] ; then
echo no partitions given, using whole disk
else
PARTITIONS=$3
echo using partitions : ${PARTITIONS}
fi
if [ -z ${PARTITIONS} ] ; then
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename
${VMDKPATH}${VMDK}.vmdk -rawdisk ${DISK} -register else
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename
${VMDKPATH}${VMDK}.vmdk -rawdisk ${DISK} -partitions ${PARTITIONS}
-relative -register fi
jag@jag-tp:~$
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