Nadav Har'El wrote on Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 22:47:17 +0200: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012, Mord Behar wrote about "Re: OT: creating disk image > from existing disk for VirtualBox": > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:26 PM, David Suna > > <da...@davidsconsultants.com>wrote: > > > I have an old hard disk which ran Windows XP. I would like to turn that > > > into something that I can run as a virtualbox client. Does anyone know > > > how > > > I would go about doing that? > > > > I've never actually tried this, but the following line might work: > > dd if=/ of=/path/to/newImageFile.vdi > > I assume you mean > dd if=/dev/sdc of=... > > with /dev/sdc the appropriate block device, not the mounted file system.
It's a good idea to have the filesystem unmounted while dd is running, too. (Yes, some people on this thread already know this -- but mentioning it for the archives.) > If you don't specify bs=, might as well use cp instead of dd, by the > way. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
