FN11 VM no files appear, no boot

[Marco Ertel]

Hi,
I tried to go the standard way for getting VMs from 9.10 (Virtualbox) to FN11:

• create raw file with
  Code:

  VBoxManage clonehd aaa.vdi bbb.raw --format raw

• bring the raw file via ftp to the FN11 machine
• create zvol with at least the same size (my raw file was exactly 30GB, so I created zvol with 32GiB)
• Code:

  dd if=path/bbb.raw of=path/zvol bs=1m

• create VM with UEFI (the used Ubuntu started with UEFI in vbox), add zvol as device
• start the machine and connect VNC

Now I get the UEFI boot and checked the device but no files on. I also did the same with the boot menu (boot from file)- also no file. And yes this VM has worked in vbox and has booted using UEFI.

What might the problem here?

Thanks and Kind Regards,
Marco

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to figure this out?

 

[Marco Ertel]

Unfortunately not. I tried many things but nothing has worked.
I really can't understand how somebody can import VMs from virtualbox.
The only thing which has worked was to boot from the raw file instead of the zvol. But this is not in FN11U2. I found this in the nightly build.
Maybe I migrate as soon as this feature is available in the standard train.

Kind Regards,
Marco

 

[Marco Ertel]

issue solved- it was my fault.
I used the wrong path in the dd command. I used of=/mnt/vol/.../zvol which leads to a file in that path.
the correct path is of=/dev/zvol/.../zvol
(if zvol is the name of your zvolume)
Hope this helps also somebody else!
Kind Regards,
Marco