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| author | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-08-23 11:55:34 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-08-23 11:55:34 -0400 |
| commit | 8a7bf496f0fcc6ac9267263f2d290ee24c7d60a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b310266698d97d48d604d251ed51dff8eba3969 | |
| parent | 8ab5ec3ca3c75a6ef8c50ae9a150f6944161008f (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/DiskImage_creation_does_not_work_on_my_system/comment_5_df27f39bfb7104b4440c972b71f586e4._comment b/doc/forum/DiskImage_creation_does_not_work_on_my_system/comment_5_df27f39bfb7104b4440c972b71f586e4._comment new file mode 100644 index 00000000..374de327 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/DiskImage_creation_does_not_work_on_my_system/comment_5_df27f39bfb7104b4440c972b71f586e4._comment @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 5""" + date="2017-08-23T15:49:27Z" + content=""" +The `vmdkBuiltFor` property is provided to make a disk image +usable with virtualbox. If your distribution chooses not to include +virtualbox and so you don't have virtualbox installed, what good would +such an image be to you? + +To use `vmdkBuiltFor` you must already have a disk image file, which qemu +etc can already use. + +"qemu-img convert" writes a whole disk image file. This is a much more +expensive operation than what `vmdkBuiltFor` currently does, which creates +a tiny text file that makes virtualbox use the existing disk image. +"""]] |