From: Thomas F. <tfj...@sh...> - 2008-07-29 00:13:37
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On July 28, 2008, Elias Pschernig wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 05:41 -0600, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > > kvm is based on qemu, VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization solution, > > > and its gui is rather easy to use, and any disks associated with a > > > guest shows up as an IDE disk in the guest. > > > > Oh i forgot, kvm depends on intel's and AMD's hardware virtualization > > extensions. So only kqemu is an option if you want any kind of speed up > > with qemu on an older machine. > > I see, so kvm doesn't work for me. I installed the kqemu module, but > still no difference. Maybe 16-bit real mode is the problem? Although the > djgpp tools actually switch to 16-bit protected mode I think.. > > About virtualbox, I couldn't figure out how to mount my HD image in it. > It's simply a file I mounted as loop device, then ran fdisk and > mkfs.msdos on it. And qemu boots from it without problems - so now I'd > need a way to boot vbox from it, but it only lets me select "vdi" files > and so on, no device or normal block file.. any ideas? This should work: VBoxManage convertdd <filename> <outputfile> where <filename> is the raw disk image and <outputfile> is the new .vdi or if that doesn't work, try these directions while skiping the first qemu-img command http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/howto-transform-a-qemu-image-to-a-virtualbox-image/ which I guess was updated to tell you do to this instead: VBoxManage convertdd <before>.bin <after>.vdi VBoxManage modifyvdi <after>.vdi compact > -- > Elias Pschernig <el...@us...> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere > in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfj...@sh... |