Convert XEN image files to VirtualBox image files

Материал из support.qbpro.ru

Пример

VBoxManage convertfromraw -format VDI xenvista.img VBoxVista.vdi

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Converting from raw image file="xenvista.img" to file="VBoxVista.vdi"...
Creating dynamic image with size 10485760000 bytes (10000MB)...

Пример2

еще один вариант:

VBoxManage convertdd the_disk.img the_disk.vdi

Разные примеры

VirtualBox command-line interface (VBoxManage) provides an easy way to convert raw disk image to the VDI/VMDK format and otherwise.

Let's assume that we have raw image of the sdb device:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=./sdb.raw

To use it with VirtualBox we need to convert it to the VDI format:

$ VBoxManage convertdd sdb.raw sdb.vdi --format VDI

To use it with VMware we need to convert it to the VMDK format:

$ VBoxManage convertdd sdb.raw sdb.vmdk --format VMDK

Convert between VDI/VMDK formats:

$ VBoxManage clonehd sdb.vdi sdb.vmdk --format VMDK

$ VBoxManage clonehd sdb.vmdk sdb.vdi --format VDI

Convert to the RAW image:

$ VBoxManage clonehd sdb.vdi sdb.raw --format RAW

Alternative solution to get back raw image after applying modifications is to use qemu-img command from qemu package:

$ qemu-img convert -f vmdk sdb.vmdk -O raw sdb.raw

Now we can write image to the device:

$ sudo dd if=./sdb.raw of=/dev/sdb