Convert XEN image files to VirtualBox image files
Пример
VBoxManage convertfromraw -format VDI xenvista.img VBoxVista.vdi VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. 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