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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2011-11-05 14:50:57 +0100
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@@ -22,7 +22,25 @@ The network controller should be configured as PCnet-PCI II or PCNet-FAST III
for instance. INTEL PRO or Paravirtualized Network do not work.
+## Converting from qemu image
+
+It is possible to convert qemu raw image to one of the formats recognized by VirtualBox, namely vdi format.
+
+If you are not sure if the image is a raw format, use qemu to get the information:
+
+ qemu-img info debian-hurd-original.img
+
+To convert the image you need the VirtualBox package properly installed with a VBoxManage tool (which is part of the package). Convert image from raw to vdi:
+
+ VBoxManage convertfromraw debian-hurd-original.img debian-hurd-converted.vdi --format VDI
+
+
# Performance
If [[QEMU with KVM|qemu]] is not available, VirtualBox reportedly has better
performance.
+
+IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-31:
+
+ <youpi> I don't know what virtualbox does with hardware emulation, but
+ gnumach is awfully slow to probe things there