Stephen Rowles wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying out virtual box in an attempt to avoid having to reboot my dual
> boot machine again :).
>
> I've removed all the junk from my Windows partition and it now only uses
> up 13 gigs.
>
> What I would like to do is to create a VirtualBox image that I can then
> use inside virtual box. I don't want to risk using the partitions directly
> at this point in case something goes wrong!
>
> I can use VBoxManage converfromraw to convert a "dd" image into a virtual
> box image to use, however the problem is my partition size is 110gigs,
> with only 13 gigs in use and of course dd would just create me a 110gig
> image.
>
> I thought about creating a new partition on the disk and copying the data
> across, but that seems very inefficient way of doing it, and I don't have
> any free space which means scary partition resizing on my live system! I
> cannot afford to have any downtime at the moment or my project manager
> will shoot me! tbh he'd probably shoot me if he knew I was even looking at
> this, but it gives me something to do while I'm waiting for compiles ;)
>
> Any suggestions of tools on Linux I can use to create a minimal image of
> this data on my windows parition?
>
>
>
http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/
I believe it's capable of converting a partition into a VM and I also
believe VirtualBox can use VMWare VMs... YMMV, AFAIK, IANAL, PCMCIA
James
