[ale] Convert VDI to raw image (was ALE puzzler (or, BusyBox rocks))

[Omar Chanouha]

All,

I have been trying to convert a vdi to a raw image so I can run it
under KVM rather then virtualbox. All the posts on how to do this
revolve around a program called vditool which no longer exists. There
was also a suggestion to use a patched version of qemu, but that is
also old. So my plan is to run the vdi in virtualbox, then dd the disk
over to my actual machine. I tried:

dd if=/dev/hda | ssh otech at 192.168.1.100 'cat > disk.img'

That seemed to start fine, but after about a gig the transmission
keeps breaking. Both the client and server claim the other closed the
connection.

So then I tried the suggestion from this thread:

server: sudo nc -l -p 22 > disk.img
virtualbox: sudo dd if=/dev/hda | nc 192.168.1.100 22

That transferred about 140M before it just stopped.

It seems that it should be working, but something is interrupting the
connection. At this point I am pretty much out of ideas.

Any thoughts?

-OFosho, Miami Dolphin and Virtually Frustrated

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Sean McNealy <sean.mcnealy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:30 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>> I had nc running on both sides of the
>> connection, so it's not clear what would make either of them
>> decide to quit.
>>
>
> The man page I found online says:
>
> "The connection may be terminated using an EOF ('^D')."
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