VBox 3.0.0 and converted Windows parition not running

[brettalton]

I ran the following commands to convert my existing Vista partition into a VirtualBox hard drive, but I can't seem to get it to boot.

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sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=windows.img
VBoxManage convertfromraw windows.img windows.vdi

The log ended with:

00:00:05.569 Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from Hard Disk...

Before I powered it off forcefully.

There are no error messages either. What can I do?

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 and have VBox 3.0.0 from the Jaunty repositories.

[vbox4me2]

Try the clonezilla CD, before that starts it will show the dd commandline or just let it clone.

[brettalton]

Is there any other way to do this from the Linux command line?

Maybe I needed to tell it what format I wanted it in?

VBoxManage convertfromraw -format VDI test.raw test.vdi

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Image ... VirtualBox

[christyw744]

Thanks for the help, I was having the same problems and was about to start a new post, but I saw this one and it really helped. Thanks again