Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:27:48 +0100 From: Carsten Heesch <ch@sysconfig.org.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Softlayer VPS: Loading FreeBSD Message-ID: <557A0B64.9050808@sysconfig.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <64385A15-591B-4933-BD83-45EAA5A372C5@hub.org> References: <6277AB8E-EDF5-436A-B1A9-5C041041E165@hub.org> <CAKE2PDtCki%2B7v3wN5BNoao8v3eiqgZb_0q27hocjqgANObaEbg@mail.gmail.com> <64385A15-591B-4933-BD83-45EAA5A372C5@hub.org>
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> That gave us IPMI access for the Bare Metal server we put in place, > but no KVM access for VPS … for VPS, I need to create an ISO of my > install, upload that and then they effectively ‘dd’ it to the VPS, > which is cool, but I need to figure out how to create an image based > on a VirtualBox build on a Mac OS X system :) If they really just "dd" it, then a RAW image of your Virtualbox instance should work, shouldn't it? Choose QCOW as the disk format in VirtualBox, and then use "qemu-img convert" to make a raw image. qemu-img apparently understands other formats like VDI and VDMK too, but I have only ever used QCOW-to-RAW myself for similar situations with other providers. I haven't got any OSX devices available at the moment, but apparently Qemu is available in Macports and should contain qemu-img. Cheers Carsten
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