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booting raw-disk images (made with dd) e.g. of a WXP-paritio
Posted: 29. Oct 2007, 18:03
by john99
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
Posted: 30. Oct 2007, 14:04
by Ingo
No, only VDI or partial VMDK.
Posted: 19. Sep 2008, 16:13
by john99
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
Posted: 19. Sep 2008, 16:36
by EmmEff
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.
Posted: 19. Sep 2008, 16:57
by john99
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
Posted: 24. Sep 2008, 16:57
by EmmEff
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.