Tag: raw

• Raw ZVOL access in ZFS on Linux not an option for VirtualBox?

  I have gotten about as far as I can go…I can boot a Fedora netinstall cd, and I can attempt to fdisk /dev/sda, but this device will not open in fdisk. This might be consistent with no “rdsk” device in the dev tree. Funny though, I can fdisk /dev/zd0, and it lists partitions. Could this…

  jedreynolds

  September 25, 2014

  computing, Linux

  disk, raw, virtualbox, virtualization, zfs, zvol

• Converting Virtualbox disk to ZFS volumes

  I am trying to create zvol backed virtualbox guests using ZFS on Linux. Hopefully this is not too ambitious. Find size of original .VDI disk image: vboxmanage showhdinfo Fedora19.vdi Pass that file size into zfs create: zfs create -V40960M tank/VMs/Fedora19 Convert .vdi file to raw, best if you can do this from one hd to…

  jedreynolds

  September 24, 2014

  computing, Linux

  Linux, raw, vdev, virtualbox, zfs