On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:45:15PM -0400, Larry Martell wrote: > I have a CentOS VM with a VirtIO disk controller and I need to port > that to Virtual Box on a Mac. But Vbox does not support VirtIO, only > IDE, SATA, or SCSI. Is there a way to convert the VirtIO VM to one of > those disk controllers? Yes, depending on how the CentOS VM is configured you may be able to simply change the storage controller from virtio-blk to SATA. Both QEMU and VirtualBox support SATA. The key thing is to use disk/file system labels instead of hardcoding device paths into configuration files like /etc/fstab. This solves the problem that the VM fails to boot when a device is renamed. You will probably find that the VM boots successfully if you change from virtio-blk to SATA. By the way, VirtualBox does support virtio-net so it's not generally true that VirtualBox doesn't support virtio. It would be more correct to explicitly say "virtio-blk" instead of just "virtio" so that people reading this discussion don't take away the wrong idea. Stefan
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