booting raw-disk images (made with dd) e.g. of a WXP-paritio

john99 · Post by **john99** » 29. Oct 2007, 18:03

Hello,

does VirtualBox support booting raw-disk images (made with dd) e.g. of a WXP-parition?

Thank's a lot for any feedback!

John

Post by **Ingo** » 30. Oct 2007, 14:04

No, only VDI or partial VMDK.

john99 · Post by **john99** » 19. Sep 2008, 16:13

Does VirtualBox 2.x support booting raw-disk images (made with dd) e.g. of a WXP-parition?

Thank's a lot for any feedback!

John

EmmEff · Post by **EmmEff** » 19. Sep 2008, 16:36

Does "VBoxManage convertdd" import partitions or disks?

If not disks, then you could write a script to extract the individual partitions from your disk image and then import them into VB.

john99 · Post by **john99** » 19. Sep 2008, 16:57

EmmEff wrote:Does "VBoxManage convertdd" import partitions or disks?

If not disks, then you could write a script to extract the individual partitions from your disk image and then import them into VB.

Thank's for the feedback. I am not sure if I do fully understand it, but it gives me the impression that it's possible to boot raw-disk images (made with dd) e.g. of a WXP-parition but not of a whole disk.

Is that the case?

John

EmmEff · Post by **EmmEff** » 24. Sep 2008, 16:57

At the very least, with a little work, you can IMPORT your raw disk images. You will not be able to boot from a the original raw disk image.