Now the most important part for this article, select the existing disk and locate your converted VDI. Select the amount of memory for the machine and click “Next”. Enter a name for the machine and click “Next”.
Open up virtualbox and click on create virtual machine. # chown user:group /home/brunomc/Windows_7VBOX.vdiįinally we can create a VM on Virtualbox using the converted disk. Since I have been doing everything as root, I will now change the owner for the disk to my non-privileged user. # VBoxManage convertfromraw -format VDI Windows_7VBOX.raw /home/user/Windows_7VBOX.vdiĬonverting from raw image file="Windows_7VBOX.raw" to file="/home/user/Windows_7VBOX.vdi".Ĭreating dynamic image with size 85899345920 bytes (81920MB). Once the RAW disk is created, now it is necessary to convert it to VDI using VBoxManage. # qemu-img convert -O raw Windows_7-KVM.qcow2 Windows_7VBOX.raw The second thing is to convert the disk image from KVM to RAW using qemu. This is one of such things, move a Windows 7 VM from KVM to Virtualbox… so let’s get to it, shall we?įirst thing you might be interested to do is changing the type of hard drive used in KVM to IDE. I’m doing this specially to document stuff I had to deal with that I’m pretty sure I won’t be doing any time soon. Hi folks, here is me again posting tips about virtualization instead of database management stuff.
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