On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 15:10 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Patrick > O'Callaghan<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 10:34 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote: > >> Is there a way to combine these 2 commands to cut my time in half? > >> > >> VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw file.vdi file.raw > >> then I have to run > >> dd if=file.raw of=/dev/sdb > > > > Assuming the second line is correct (i.e. you really want to copy > > file.raw bit-for-bit to a physical device), why not do it directly: > > > > VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw file.vdi /dev/sdb > > > > > Looks like VBoxManage won't write to a directory, darn. /dev/sdb is not a directory. Unless your setup is *very* nonstandard, it's a device, in fact a disk drive. In the worst case the app might want to seek on it, but there's no reason it shouldn't be able to do that. BTW I don't see a convertoraw option in my copy of VBoxManage. Are you quite sure of what you're doing? poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
