Using .img in VirtualBox in Ubuntu
Uncategorized July 9th, 2009 by Shai Perednik
There is no need to convert the .img file downloaded into an iso image just to boot it from VirtualBox.
I’ll use the JoliCloud .img file I downloaded as an example. These instructions are on an ubuntu machine but should be the same on MAC.
Create a new Virtual Machine as normal. Use the “Create New Hard disk” option as normal.
Open Terminal and enter the following
VBoxManage convertfromraw -format VDI jolicloud.img jolicloud.vdi
(Be sure to change jolicloud.img to the correct name of the img file you downloaded).
The 600MB img took less than 5 min to convert to VDI.
Once your back at the main VirtualBox UI, click settings.
Goto System and change the boot order to the Hard Disk 1st.
Goto Hard Disks and add a Primary Slave and choose the newly created jolicloud.vdi.
Start the VM Machine and click inside the window. Press F12 and choose #2 to boot the primary slave.
From there install should be as normal installing to your primary master as usual.
Tags: ISO, Mac, Ubuntu, VirtualBox, wind
I solved it and have jolicloud properly running in VirtualBox
Use UltraIso to extract jolicloud IMG files to a folder. Then open Ubuntu ISO with UltraIso. Copy the jolicloud extracted files into the Ubuntu ISO and save the modified ISO.
Now you can boot that ISO from VirtualBox and it is Jolicloud
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