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1. #CONVERT DMG TO RAW IMAGE MAC OS X#
2. #CONVERT DMG TO RAW IMAGE INSTALL#
3. #CONVERT DMG TO RAW IMAGE WINDOWS#

then type in the name of the VDI image you wish to create: yourvdiimage.vdi (add the. drag yourdmgfile.dmg to the Terminal.appħ. Drag the VBoxManage command to your Terminal.app windowĦ. Right Click - choose Show Package Contents from context menuĤ. These "folders" are placed in your PATH so that when you run Terminal.app and you type in a command, your SHELL knows where to look for these COMMANDS.Įither you can ADD the VirtualBox COMMANDS to your PATH, (which would break if you ever moved VirtualBox.) Or you can do it the lazy OS X way:Ģ.

#CONVERT DMG TO RAW IMAGE MAC OS X#

There are default areas of your Mac OS X file system that are used to "hold" commands. To use VBoxManage and other shell commands from the Terminal.app you will need to somehow tell the shell where to look for commands. It is not quite as mysterious as it all seems. Maybe you need to start shaking a rubber chicken at your Mac. I have used Q (Qemu for Mac) and it works in a round-a-bout way also. We really do not have a lot to go on here except that you use Mac OS X (intel inferred since on the VBox forum) and you wish to convert a DMG image to a VDI image. If you are using 10.4 then you will need to go to the Terminal.app and use hdiutil for example:Ĭode: Select all Expand view Collapse view yourshell$ hdiutil create -size 10M -fs NTFS-3G imagename.dmg The command line utility diskutil works with third party file systems in both OS X Third party file systems when it comes to creation and formatting, but it works in Mac OS X 10.5 Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) will not list Utility” and the command line version diskutil. NTFS-3G is fairly integrated with the operating system's utilities, such as the Graphical “Disk Once the IMAGE is created, select it from DiskUtility and select RESTOREģ.1 SOURCE will be your original DMG fileģ.2 DESTINATION will be your newly created IMAGEĤ.0 You will now be able to convert the new IMAGE wth your original.DMG files to a VDI file using

#CONVERT DMG TO RAW IMAGE WINDOWS#

perhaps not?)Ģ.1 Select a Volume Size that you will want your VDI disk size to beĢ.2 Select the Volume Format - Windows NT File System - NTFS-3Gģ. Once the frameworks are installed (a logout may be needed.

(It's incredibly handy to have these frameworks installed anyways and simply extends the capability of READING NTFS filesystems to also allowing WRITING of NTFS filesystems.)

#CONVERT DMG TO RAW IMAGE INSTALL#

You will need to install the MACFUSE framework, then install the NTFS-3G framework for mac. However, IF you wish to CREATE another SLAVE harddrive (VDI) for your GUEST system you will need to CONVERT your HFS+ DMG file to a universally readable format NTFS.

However, IF you wish to simply READ this DMG file from a GUEST that has shared folder usage, you can MOUNT the DMG file in Mac OS X, then ADD this DMG file to your shared folder and now READ in your GUEST. This will convert the DMG to a VDI image although the file format will be HFS+ which is only readable to Mac, or using $MacDRIVE$ application from Windows OS. VBoxManage convertdd yourdmgfile.dmg yournewvdiimage.vdi