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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:43:13 -0700
From:      Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vhd file from snapshots: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:44:01PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I downloaded FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20140714-r268622.vhd.xz
> > from
> >
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/11.0-CURRENT/amd64/20140714/
> >
> >
> > Under MacOS X, I uncompressed the .vhd.xz file.  I used VirtualBox, and
> > created a VM.  When I tried to attach
> > the .vhd file to this VM, VirtualBox gave this error:
> >
> > VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> There are a few issues with how qemu-img creates the VHD.  The use of
> qemu-img will very soon be not required, thanks to marcel@ adding VHD
> support to mkimg(1).
>
> In the meantime, can you try cloning the VHD disk, but instead of
> a dynamically-allocated image, set it to be a fixed-size image?  I have
> had very sporadic success with this, so cannot guarantee it will work.
>
> The VMDK image, however, should work without issue, if you are unable to
> get the VHD image to work.
>


I don't know how to clone the VHD disk.  Inside VirtualBox, I created a
FreeBSD VM with no disks,
and then attached the VHD image as a disk to this new VM.  It wasn't
working.

However, I tried doing the same thing with the VMDK image, and that worked
fine.

If the new mkimg can create VHD files which import without problem into
VirtualBox, that will be a huge improvement.
--
Craig



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