VirtualBox on Windows

• 在 Windows 平台上，讓 VirtualBox 直接使用實體硬碟(Physical Disk)的做法 (2010-07-20)
  • [參考] ​Access Physical Disk in VirtualBox- Desktop Virtualization Software

    D:\>set PATH=%PATH%;"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox"
    D:\>VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename d:\VirtualBox\HardDisks\mydisk.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive0
    

• Windows 上怎麼讓 VirtualBox Guest 的 port 穿透到 Host 來 - NAT 底下用 add port forwarding rule (2010-04-21)

  VBoxManage.exe setextradata "Ubuntu 9.04" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/Protocol" TCP
  VBoxManage.exe setextradata "Ubuntu 9.04" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/GuestPort" 22
  VBoxManage.exe setextradata "Ubuntu 9.04" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/HostPort" 8022
  

VirtualBox on Linux

• [備忘] 把 Windows 變成 Linux 上跑的 VirtualBox Image (2010-07-20)
  • [參考] ​VirtualBox 官網維基 Migrate Windows

    jazz@jazzbook:~$ dd if=/dev/sdb of=A8J_WinXP_100823.img bs=1M
    jazz@jazzbook:~$ VBoxManage convertfromraw A8J_WinXP_100823.img A8J_WinXP.vdi
    

• [備忘] 把 Raw Image 變成 Linux 上跑的 VirtualBox Image (2010-07-20)
  • [錯誤作法] 如果給 Raw Image 的話，會出現不是 block device 的訊息。因此要用 losetup 把 image 變成 block device

    jazz@jazzbook:~$ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename .VirtualBox/HardDisks/A8J.vdi -rawdisk /home/jazz/A8J_WinXP_100823.img 
    Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.8
    (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
    All rights reserved.
    
    File '/home/jazz/A8J_WinXP_100823.img' is no block device
    The raw disk vmdk file was not created
    

  • [正確作法]

    jazz@jazzbook:~$ sudo losetup /dev/loop2 /home/jazz/A8J_WinXP_100823.img 
    [sudo] password for jazz: 
    jazz@jazzbook:~$ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename .VirtualBox/HardDisks/A8J.vdi -rawdisk /dev/loop2
    Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.8
    (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
    All rights reserved.
    
    RAW host disk access VMDK file .VirtualBox/HardDisks/A8J.vdi created successfully.
    

• 安裝 VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack

  ~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose
  ~$ wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.18/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.18-78361.vbox-extpack
  ~$ sudo VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.18-78361.vbox-extpack
  

Reference

• 2010-07-20
• 2010-05-17
• 2010-04-21
• 2010-01-25
• 2009-06-27
• 2008-09-29

• ​Virtualbox networking : Installing the TAP driver in Windows XP