[Ilugc] Creating a Virutalbox compatible VM from raw files
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:56:41 +0530
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan at gmail.com>
wrote:
--- On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Zico <mailzico at gmail.com> wrote:
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| That means, I have the total file system as tarball,
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You can create a raw image of the file system (for example) using:
# dd if=/dev/sda of=hard-disk.img
Most hypervisors have utilities to convert the virtual disk image formats.
What I understood from Zico's OP is that he has the entire OS
installation in a tar ball (I have used this method for bare metal
installs). Now he wants to create a bootable virtual disk image with
the OS installation coming from the tar ball.
@ Zico - please clarify use case scenarios i.e. what do you have and
where do you want to go with it; break it up into a list items.
-- Arun Khan
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