Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
#5037 closed defect (worksforme)
VBoxManage convertfromraw doesn't work as expected
| Reported by: | ajoe04 | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | VMM/RAW | Version: | VirtualBox 3.0.6 |
| Keywords: | vboxmanage convertfromraw | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
Setup:
Ubuntu 9.04 on an USB-Stick with VirtualBox 3.06 install.
/dev/sda source that should be migrated.
/ANOTHER_USB_DRIVE/OutPutFile.vdi where the target File is located.
From the wiki: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows[[BR]]
I tried the command:
VBoxManage convertfromraw /dev/sda OutPutFile.vdi 120034123776
But this doesn't work, gives the error:
Syntax error: Invalid parameter '120034123776'
What works is:
dd if=/dev/sda | VBoxManage convertfromraw stdin OutPutFile.vdi 120034123776
Please, change the documentation of
Migrate_Windows and VBoxManage -help
to explain in more detail what to do.
And please also allow to use the command
VBoxManage convertfromraw /dev/sda OutPutFile.vdi 120034123776
directly.
I'm a little confused. The only thing missing on Migrate_Windows was a pretty obvious "convertfromraw" in the VBoxManage command line. It always said what to use if converting from another image or straight from a drive.
The help output of "VBoxManage convertfromraw" always said that the size parameter is only applicable to the variant reading from stdin.