[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="VirtualBox"]] <http://www.virtualbox.org/> # Installation The disk controller has to be configured as IDE. Neither SATA nor SCSI are supported. 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