Convert iso to virtual disk

This tutorial will probably be the same for both Mac and Windows computers. ISO file has easily become the most widely-used format for OS installations. It is also the exact same for both Linux OS. Before proceeding, be sure to install the VirtualBox software on your PC. It may be downloaded free of cost as it is open-source software. From there, start cmd and execute the following command:.

You need to substitute the file. You can follow the command under:. The file path from the command above is that the file path at which the ISO file is. After the process is complete, you can see the. VMDK file on your desktop.

Mail will not be published required. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. Enjoy this tip? Subscribe to our newsletter! Thank you! You have successfully joined our subscriber list. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Try 0 A. Beta 3 of iOS That way hopefully you will get some answers relevant to your scenario. I've been searching for days trying to figure out how to do this. This is the only walk-through that worked on the first try.

Mad Propz!! We run a highly virtulized dynamic environment. Even our DNS servers are virtulized. When we have a catastrophic event and have to spin everything up from scratch our VM hosts cant find their back end storage because DNS is down becuase the VM Host cant find its back end storage Its quite time consuming and surprisingly we seem to have several catastrophic events a year.

I think it means he can't find dpkg in the chroot environnment, but i got no idea how to fix this, if you have one i'd be glad to hear it. I use a program called remastersys if your looking at creating bootable OS from working linux system. Draw backs is I have only tested this with ubuntu but most things linux can be tinkered and chaged to suit and it wont like the iso if it is too big but again I cant see why the size limitation cant be "forced" to ignore error.

Although I haven't tried it on a server OS. Also I didn't realise that it was back up and running IIRC it died some time ago, but obviously got revived somewhere along the line so thanks for that info.

Thanks a lot for sharing your great and informative article. I followed the steps, and got all the way to the iso, but it doesn't boot properly. In the boot process it gets to the step where it starts a vmxnet NIC driver, then kernel panics. I suspect I somehow need to uninstall it at the. I am not sure how I can do this, any ideas? Unfortunately I am not sure on a workaround. Just to add a small bug in the procedure, i was getting error while creating the iso stating that the file size was larger than 2Gb so some flag "-allow-limited-size" had to be added.

I got the below message after booting the ISO. I was not able to install the linux-image-generic after chroot 'ing so maybe that is my problem but if anyone experience this problem and fixed it then I would greatly appreciate the help!.

Thanks for this article it is exactly what I need. Everything is working fine until I get here Otherwise that's really weird! According to Debian dpkg-divert is provided by the dpkg package. It is a fundamental part of Debian and it's derivative's package management system and should certainly be installed!

I've followed this process to the final step and have had success so far, however when I attempt to run tklpatch-geniso foo. There is no way do represent this file size.

I didn't see anything in this post that excludes large vms. Is there a work around to this? Did some digging and noticed that the tlkpatch-geniso utilizes the genisoimage command. In fairness So how about this one Anyway, it's clear that for whatever reason your image isn't mounting properly. Does it have partitions? To see what is going on, try this:. Perhaps that's your only issue? This is pretty dated now and was Linux specific.

I'm not even sure that it would still work with Linux, let alone an alternate OS. Group 4. Skip to main content. Blog Tags:. I suppose that's a good enough reason, so lets get to it. TKL just keeps on impressing me more all the time. Every once in a while Every once in a while it's fun to tackle an issue like this, so thanks for the inspiration.

The gotcha's got me , so I assume they got others as well, which makes this post that much more interesting and useful. Looking forward to your feedback once you emerge from the snow Not Resolved Yet. I don't know enough about this process to be of any more help to you. The virtual kernel does not include squashfs support, so the resulting ISO won't be able to unpack the root filesystem, and the boot will fail.

Also, an ISO can be installed to bare-metal, so it doesn't make much sense to include the optimized virtual kernel even if it was possible to be complete, it is possible with a couple of workarounds but not worth the effort, and possible side-effects. Hi, Thanks so much for such interesting articles! Cheers, Paco. Keep us updated. Heres another couple of "gotchas" I experienced: 1 Alon mentioned that you may find you have multiple partitions on your source VMDK.

Heres the script I'm running to get as far as the chroot its more-or-less as per Alon's directions except I've hardcoded the name of the partition in the loop device :! Raw image has partitions? I stumbled across this when searching to convert my VM image to iso. Then thought of an easier way for basiic users Take a backup using acronis VMware is to mount tib files directly Have not been able to convert a tib to iso yet. The contents of the BT4R2 folder.

Also, this folder is being used through VMWare shared folders. Thanks for the excellent article. I suspect because. Maybe the. And what is the problem? You only use the. As the tutorial says No sorry, got no idea. Excellent, thanks. Half way through! Simple method! I found the this command: VBoxManage filename. The command VBoxManage filename. I think that the command would be VBoxManage clonehd filename.

Everything moves along swell up until the last command.. Just guessing but try: tklpatch-prepare-cdroot Mikrotik No trailing slash. Nope, same problem. Nope, the issue persists. If anyone can help I would appreciate this. Hmmm beyond me True regarding the opensource firewalls distros. Thanks for the post Everything was fine until the chroot command.

Gotcha 3? Everything works up to this point: tklpatch-prepare-cdroot turnkey-core. Try installing syslinux inside the system that is to say: tklpatch-chroot turnkey-core.

But when I loaded it to virtualbox, The system did not booted. I got a "kernel panic" message. Does anybody know how to solve this problem? Hi Alon, Not sure, if you received my last post. Could you assist in this matter? All goes well for me before mounting. But for two of the partitions the type isn't even specified:.

The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.