From 8a7bf496f0fcc6ac9267263f2d290ee24c7d60a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:55:34 -0400 Subject: comment --- .../comment_5_df27f39bfb7104b4440c972b71f586e4._comment | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/DiskImage_creation_does_not_work_on_my_system/comment_5_df27f39bfb7104b4440c972b71f586e4._comment 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. +"""]] -- cgit v1.2.3