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By: VirtualBox image to KVM, and (note to self, or the only reader of this blog) a few words about why this blog exists « just another john cheng blauwgh

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:09:57 +0000

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By: HowTo:kvm | This is jerry's blog

HowTo:kvm | This is jerry's blog — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:12:17 +0000

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HowTo:kvm | jerry-yang work's logs — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:24:16 +0000

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HowTo:kvm | S.C.Y 工作記錄 — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:41:18 +0000

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By: VirtualBox -> KVM « zeusville

VirtualBox -> KVM « zeusville — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:26:30 +0000

[...] VirtualBox -> KVM by jmrodri on October 13, 2010 I made the switch today to move from VirtualBox to KVM on my Fedora 13 workstation. At first I thought I would have to reinstall all of my guests, then I found this blog on how to convert VirtualBox guests to work in KVM: Convert Virtualbox vid to KVM qcow. [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:06:29 +0000

I was able to make this conversion in one step with this command:

qemu-img convert -f vdi oldImage.vdi -O qcow2 newImage.qcow

By: Conceit

Conceit — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:57:19 +0000

As far as I’ve read, KVM can read VMDK files (Vmware). Virtualbox exports VMDK either via vboxmanage or via “Export appliance” in the file menu. Export works fine, but I did not try using the VMDK in KVM, yet.

By: Converting VirtualBox VDI files to raw disk images | Needs More Pop

Converting VirtualBox VDI files to raw disk images | Needs More Pop — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:26:32 +0000

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By: bodhi.zazen

bodhi.zazen — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:32:57 +0000

@Anonymous:

Try two – -

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I updated the syntax of the post , hope that helps.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:50:09 +0000

VBoxManage clonehd -format RAW ubuntu.vdi ubuntu.img

I get the following error:

Error: failed to clone hard disk. Error message: Could not create the clone hard disk ‘/home/yann/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/ubuntu.img’ (VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER)

Try:
VBoxManage clonehd –format RAW ubuntu.vdi ubuntu.img