If you're creating the VM from scratch, you may use raw file-backed disk image along with VMDK format wrapper. You may create a sparse file
# truncate -s 2G img or a preallocated one # dd if=/dev/zero of=img bs=1m count=2048 , then create a character device for it # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f img -u 4 , and wrap it with a vmdk container # VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename Img.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/md4 After that you may use Img.vmdk as any other disk image in VirtualBox, and mount /dev/md4* from the host machine. Just remember you'll need to run mdconfig after reboot, the md* devices are not preserved magically, and umount /dev/md4* before starting VBox. That's how i work with -current FreeBSD snapshots - they're cross-compiled and cross-installed in the host system (which is faster), then run in the VBox. -- Regards, Mirya ICQ #313898202 _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
