%all.entities; ]> $Date: 2023-05-30 20:24:05 +0000 (Tue, 30 May 2023) $ VBoxManage-convertfromraw 1 VBoxManage-convertfromraw convert a raw disk image to a virtual disk image &product-name; VBoxManage convertfromraw inputfile outputfile --format= VDI VMDK VHD --uuid=uuid --variant= Standard Fixed Split2G Stream ESX VBoxManage convertfromraw stdin outputfile bytes --format= VDI VMDK VHD --uuid=uuid --variant= Standard Fixed Split2G Stream ESX The VBoxManage convertfromraw command enables you to convert a raw disk image to an &product-name; virtual disk image (VDI). For compatibility with earlier versions of &product-name;, you can use the VBoxManage convertdd command instead of the VBoxManage convertfromraw command. The VBoxManage convertfromraw command converts the specified raw disk image input file to an &product-name; VDI file. inputfile Specifies the name of the raw disk image file to convert. outputfile Specifies the name of the file in which to write the VDI output. --format=VDI | VMDK | VHD Specifies the format of the disk image to create. Valid values are VDI, VMDK, and VHD. The default format is VDI. --uuid=uuid Specifies the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of the output file. --variant=Standard | Fixed | Split2G | Stream | ESX[,...] Specifies any required file format variants for the output file. This is a comma-separated list of variant values. Following are the valid values: Standard is the default disk image type, which has a dynamically allocated file size. Fixed uses a disk image that has a fixed file size. Split2G indicates that the disk image is split into 2GB segments. This value is for VMDK only. Stream optimizes the disk image for downloading. This value is for VMDK only. ESX is used for some VMWare products. This value is for VMDK only. Note that not all variant combinations are valid. Specifying incompatible variant values in the list will produce an error message. The VBoxManage convertfromraw stdin command reads the content of the disk image from standard input. Consider using this form of the command in a pipe sequence. outputfile Specifies the name of the file in which to write the disk image output. bytes Specifies the capacity of the targe image name. Needs to be given explicitly, because generally pipes do not support querying the overall size of the data stream. --format=VDI | VMDK | VHD Specifies the format of the disk image to create. Valid values are VDI, VMDK, and VHD. The default format is VDI. --uuid=uuid Specifies the UUID of the output file. --variant=Standard,Fixed,Split2G,Stream,ESX Specifies any required file format variants for the output file. This is a comma-separated list of variant values. Following are the valid values: Standard is the default disk image type, which has a dynamically allocated file size. Fixed uses a disk image that has a fixed file size. Split2G indicates that the disk image is split into 2GB segments. This value is for VMDK only. Stream optimizes the disk image for downloading. This value is for VMDK only. ESX is used for some VMWare products. This value is for VMDK only. Note that not all variant combinations are valid. Specifying incompatible variant values in the list will produce an error message. The following command converts the raw disk image input file disk01.raw. The output file is a VDI disk image called disk02.vdi. $ VBoxManage convertfromraw disk01.raw disk02.vdi The following command converts the raw disk image input file disk01.raw. The output file is a VMDK disk image called disk02.vmdk. $ VBoxManage convertfromraw disk01.raw disk02.vmdk --format VMDK The following command reads from disk /dev/sda using a pipe and therefore needs the exact disk size in bytes as an additional parameter, which is assumed to be 10737418240. The output file is a VDI disk image called disk.vdi. $ dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 | VBoxManage convertfromraw stdin disk.vdi 10737418240