I guess I will need to bite <img src="images/smiles/icon_eek.gif" alt="Shocked" title="Shocked" /> <img src="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /> .
FORGET (temporrarily) about Virtualbox's VDI.
Virtualbox can use VMWare VMDK Images fine.
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch05.html#vdidetails
Among ALL the available VMWare image formats, AFTER having read fully this (already given page):
http://sanbarrow.com/vmdk/disktypes.html
AND this page (same site):
http://www.sanbarrow.com/vmdk-basics.html
choose to use the "monolithic-flat" type ONLY.
This is made of two parts:
the "real" image <- this is a "dd like" image
the descriptor file for it
You can create the descriptor file manually, see:
http://sanbarrow.com/vmdk-howtos.html
If you want to use MS virtual PC, then you have to add a descriptor sector to the image (last, appended sector is the Connectix descriptor).
The tool Clonedisk:
http://labalec.fr/erwan/?page_id=42
can manage these conversions to/from a "plain" dd image automatically
jaclaz
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