Migration from a VirtualBox

[jurgenhaas]

This project is awesome, thanks for making it available. I'm a hundred percent Linux user, with 1 exception:

I currently still maintain a VirtualBox Win7 instance for an old application that I have to keep around. I can't re-install that application, I can only continue using it in that VM.

Now, with this project it is very tempting to replace that VM with a container. Is there any way to build a container on top of the available discs from the VM? Or otherwise copy stuff over, bearing in mind that components could be found in the registry.

[kroese]

I am not sure. If it was a QEMU VM it would be easier, because then your VM would have had the same Virtio drivers already. But I think VirtualBox does use different drivers for disks/network/etc.

If you can convert the VirtualBox harddrive image to qcow2 or raw format, you could maybe install the Virtio MSI file from here https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.248-1/ while still in VirtualBox. And then move the image over and see if it boots.

In theory that should work, see also here https://github.com/dockur/windows/issues/185

[jurgenhaas]

Oh, thank you so much for your really fast and comprehensive feedback. I'll see if I can get into that rabbit hole and will report back.