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Hi,
I want to evaulate some of the Oracle downloadable VM templates initially in my VirtualBox environment, does anyone know how to convert them?

I believe they are in a normal Xen format and I have used qemu-img to convert them from RAW to VMDK images. I created a new VirtualBox VM and set the System.vmdk to be the primary disk and the oracle_10g.vmdk to be the secondary.

When I start the VM I get the XEN boot loader, select the kernel from grub and then it comes back with "non executable binary format" (or similiar error - thisis from memory).

Any ideas?

The options I used in the qemu-img conversion was input = RAW, output = VMDK.

Many thanks
Regards
Sean

Hi Sean,

Did you get it working?
I am unable to run OracleVM and it will be nice to run OracleVM Templates on VirtualBox, but at the moment it's not working for me...

Regards,
Igor.

And how is it exact not working? What are you doing? What are the errors? What is your approach?

Hi, Stefan!

At the moment I get to work the image with hardware (ordinary) virtualized Oracle Linux
(problem was with disk conversion), next step is to fight with para-virtualized image.
As I could realise the trick will be to replace para-virtualized kernel with ordinary one.
It is not as simple as it could be, because I have no OracleVM server.
I'll drop few lines about my progress later (in progress)...

Regards,
Igor.