On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks for the reply. We could not figure out how to change the controller on the KVM system, so I just recreated the VM from scratch in VBox. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
