Sometimes we need to share or upload our VirtualBox virtual machines with others, creating images helps for this purpose. This post explains how to create VirtualBox image that can be shared, uploaded and imported by other hosts. Each virtual machine contains VM’s configuration, virtual disk, snapshot, log and other temporary files. The location of these [...]
VirtualBox P2V with Disk2vhd, Possible Errors and How to Fix Them
September 27, 2010 By 21 Comments
After I have published a post about VirtualBox P2V, physical to virtual by VMware converter, this post shows how to do it with Microsoft utility disk2vhd. This method gave some errors and issues but I managed solve and boot. Let’s see how to solve these possible errors and successfully do VirtualBox P2V with disk2vhd. Unfortunately [...]
Convert VMware to Virtual PC 2007 – VMDK to VHD with StarWind
June 26, 2010 By 4 Comments
If you are testing or migrating from VMware to Virtual PC 2007 or Hyper-v, then this post will be helpful to convert VMDK files to VHD with StarWind V2V image converter. Since VMDK files cannot be opened in MS virtualization products, it must be converted to (Virtual Hard Disk) format which MS uses. This example [...]
Setup and Test VirtualBox Teleportation in Normal PC- Live Migration of Virtual Machines
June 4, 2010 By 3 Comments
Recently I had time to check VirtualBox teleportation in my local PC. This is a cool feature started coming from 3.1 and later versions. In this post I demonstrate how to setup and test VirtualBox teleportation which means live migration of working virtual machines between different hosts over network. What is the use of VirtualBox [...]
Oh.. VirtualBox, Still you are Missing These all!
June 2, 2010 By 14 Comments
Oh VirtualBox 3.2, still you are missing these all for normal desktop users like me. I like your desktop virtualization software, which is very fast and easy to work with. After Oracle bought you, your name changed and added new features. But unfortunately new features are too advanced for normal desktop users and we cant [...]
How to Add SATA Hard Disk to Virtual Machine in VirtualBox
May 17, 2010 By 3 Comments
Adding SATA storage controller in VirtualBox is very simple. Sometimes, you have to attach SATA hard disks to some virtual machines. This post explains how to add sata hard disk to virtual machines in VirtualBox console mode and command prompt. VirtualBox supports Intel AHCI type sata controllers. By default virtual machines are created with IDE [...]
Sun VirtualBox 3.1.4 Released, What’s New?
February 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Maintenance release of Sun VirtualBox 3.1.4 desktop virtualization software released on 12- Feb 2010. No major changes. Around 50 issued fixed in VirtualBox 3.1.4 version. This is an update version of VirtualBox 3.1.2 released on 17 Dec 2009. Most of the fixes on VirtualBox 3.1.4 are related to VMM, graphics, networking and disks support. I [...]
VirtualBox P2V Physical to Virtual in VirtualBox
January 18, 2010 By 26 Comments
This article explains how you can do VirtualBox P2V convert physical machine to virtual machine in Sun VirtualBox. It’s not straight forward method since there no tools available for VirtualBox P2V Physical to Virtual conversion. But still it’s possible with free VMware tool. Before start the procedures, let me tell you how it’s going to [...]
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