Boot Virtual Machine from .img in VMware, QEMU, VirtualBox: Unpack & Use debian-for-alix-v3.img.bz2

I have Vmware Workstation and Quemu and Virtualbox installed
That's where I downloaded it


How to unpack debian-for-alix-v3.img.bz2 this is debian-for-alix-v3.img

I also found completely different distributions in google and none of the .img images match the virtual machine

Ultraiso will not open this format?

unfortunately


I mean oh to boot it from the virtual machine

Hello,
Ultraiso should open it and convert it, but are you sure that Vbox doesn't read IMG? it is a complete disk image like a clone.
best regards
PS burn IMG image to disk and make ISO from it is a workaround, not a solution, but it can be effective. Except something's wrong, you can't open it.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/debian-for-alix/wikis/VirtualBoxVDI.wiki

chomikuj wrote:

I have Vmware installed Workstation

Could a colleague explain what the term "installed Vmware" means - which version? on what host? with what system?

To my knowledge, Vmware machine virtualization uses vmx and similar to machine virtualization (computer ), and files like vmdk and derivatives to disk virtualization .

There is no direct possibility in Vmware Workstation to run any system from a disk image in img format.

Using special converters, e.g. VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, etc., it is possible to obtain virtual vmdk disk files from the img disk image, but there is little chance that the virtual vmx machine will be properly configured to make it compatible with the physical computer from which the img system image was made

VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.5 Build 5234757 na Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64 bit

In an illustrative simplification:

-installing the Vmware Workstation application (or any other virtualizing software) is like buying yourself a new, beautiful a case for a physical computer;

-without proper equipment with specific hardware, such as processor, memory, video cards, network cards, etc. (analogous to virtual machine configuration - creating vmx files) - you cannot install anything in this case - neither the system nor any programs;

-according to the hardware equipment, you can install an appropriate operating system in a physical computer, e.g. on a hard disk (similarly, you can install an appropriate operating system on a virtual machine mounted in a virtual disk - vmdk file).


And just like in the real (physical) world, in virtualization it is not possible to directly transfer the disk image (img) from one machine to another, which would result in a working clone.

AMD Althon II X4 640 3.00 GHZ
4 GB ram
Ati Raden HD 6600 1 GB
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64 bit

In virtualbox you can easily run the operating system from the disk taken from the real computer - fire it on a virtual one.

kindlar wrote:

you can boot the operating system from the disk removed from the real computer

It is not good for someone to repeat without practical verification such heresies

Try, buddy, do this trick with physical machines: remove the disk from one computer - put it in another and boot the system

The same problems occur in virtual machines. For testing, build yourself two virtual machines with different hardware configurations. Install the same operating system on both. And now do yours trick - just replace them with virtual disks and fire up those operating systems - they'll go

https://www.dobreprogramy.pl/patryk9200/Wirtualizacja-systemu-z-dysku-fizycznego,29713.html

Checked on win2K drive removed from PC.

kindlar wrote:

https://www.dobreprogramy.pl/patryk9200/Wirtualizacja-systemu-z-dysku-fizycznego,29713.html

Checked on win2K drive removed from PC.

You clearly do not distinguish, buddy "kindlar", significant nuances related to the virtualization of operating systems - presented in the quoted article "Patryk9200" and those constituting the basis of this "chomikuj" thread.

Patryk9200 clearly writes in comment # 42: "theoretically it is possible to boot windows from a disk image file, with Linux it might be harder".

Your "check" claims are either groundless or a misinterpretation of the concept of "boot" - getting the Windows login panel in my interpretation does not constitute full access to the virtualized operating system.

From my experience in this field, I was able to run only Windows 98 on a virtual machine from the disk image - and only thanks to the fact that the virtual machine worked on the same host from which the W98 image came from.

chomikuj wrote:

I mean oh to boot it from the virtual machine

Convert yourself .img image to .vmdk e.g. with WinImage - Disk menu -> Convert Virtual Hard Disk image ... by selecting All files (*. *) - the image can be dynamic:

Then create a virtual machine eg Win95 with the amount of RAM eg 128MB and set the created .vmdk image in the machine configuration.

Prot wrote:

however, there is little chance of properly configuring the vmx virtual machine to make it compatible with the physical computer from which the img system image was taken

In the case of Linux, eg Debian in the console version, there is no problem with that.

Gelip wrote:

In the case of Linux, eg Debian in the console version, there is no problem with that

Maybe a disk image from an ext partition; fat and ntfs are the same?

In my opinion, you need to run a "clean" machine for Linux, and on it, ie on a clean virtual disk install dream linux distribution. The author of the thread will waste many times more time searching for the "miracle" conversion method than it will take him to install and configure this Debian

Prot wrote:

Maybe a disk image from an ext partition; fat and ntfs are the same?

In my opinion, you need to run a "clean" machine for Linux, and on it, ie on a clean virtual disk install dream linux distribution. The author of the thread will waste many times more time searching for the "miracle" conversion method than it will take him to install and configure this Debian

You can see that you have no experience, you just write down your guesses First, check what I wrote and you will see that it is possible. Converting a file debian-for-alix-v3.img 1.75GB per .vmdk image using the above-mentioned program takes only about a minute (CPU C2D) and the system runs without any problems under VMware:

Prot wrote:

The author of the thread will waste many times more time searching for the "miracle" conversion method than it will take him to install and configure this Debian

In this case, you are absolutely wrong. It is much faster to upload a disk image to disk than to install a fresh system. As I wrote above - about a minute and I have a working system and the installation would take about 30 minutes if not more depending on the computer.

Gelip wrote:

Prot wrote:

The author of the thread will waste many times more time searching for the "miracle" conversion method than it will take him to install and configure this Debian

In this case, you are absolutely wrong. It is much faster to upload a disk image to disk than to install a fresh system.

Agreed you are right @Gelip - my mistake I did not read, that this is a specific compilation debian-for-alix normally started from CF.