Changeset 2727 in vbox for trunk/src

Timestamp:

May 21, 2007 10:03:59 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

New option for creating VMDKs that refer to individual partitions
instead of the full disk (and just clipping out inaccessible areas in
the VMDK code). Documentation updated.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxManage/VBoxInternalManage.cpp (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxManage/VBoxInternalManage.cpp

@@ -96 +96 @@
                 "  createrawvmdk -filename <filename> -rawdisk <diskname>\n"
                 "                [-partitions <list of partition numbers>]\n"
-                "                [-register]\n"
+                "                [-register] [-relative]\n"
                 "       Creates a new VMDK image which gives access to an entite host disk or\n"
                 "       some partitions of a host disk. The diskname is on Linux e.g. /dev/sda,\n"
                 "       and on Windows e.g. \\\\.\\PhysicalDisk0).\n"
+                "       On Linux host the parameter -relative causes a VMDK file to be created\n"
+                "       which refers to individual partitions instead to the entire disk.\n"
                 "       Optionally the created image can be immediately registered.\n"
                 "       The necessary partition numbers can be queried with\n"