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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Dave Hala Jr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@58ghz.net">dave@58ghz.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I've got virtualbox 3.1.4 setup and running on a centos 5.x machine. I<br>
want to run an existing rhel 3 server as a vm on the centos box.<br>
<br>
I booted into single user mode on the rhel 3 box, unmounted the drives,<br>
dd'ed them and saved the image on a usb hard drive. At the moment I'm<br>
running:<br>
<br>
VBoxManage convertdd rhel3.img rhel3.vdi<br>
<br>
with the following output:<br>
<br>
Converting from raw image file="rhel3.img" to file="rhel3.vdi"...<br>
Creating dynamic image with size 320071884800 bytes (305245MB)...<br>
<br>
The original dd image was about was about 320gb. I'm guessing that my<br>
conversion is going to be that big. On the original rhel 3 box, the<br>
amount of actual drive space that was used was about 40gb. Is there<br>
someway that I can make a new vdi, that is closer to the 40gb size?<br>
<br>
It seems kinda crazy for me to need 640gb to make a vm image of an<br>
existing server.<br>
<br>
:) Dave<br>
<br>
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