[Bug 210361] Virtual Machine images don't work with VirtualBox [.qcow file format]

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210361

Benedict Reuschling <bcr at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Benedict Reuschling <bcr at FreeBSD.org> ---
I just verified it. Downloaded the qcow2 10.3. image, extracted it from the xz
and created a new VirtualBox VM using that qcow2 file as the underlying disk.
After starting the VM I get: FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System
halted. 

A quick search on the web revealed this: 
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=75859

The issue seems to be with VirtualBox, not FreeBSD. To convert your qcow2 image
to VDI, which you can then import as a new VM in VirtualBox, open a console and
enter this:

VBoxManage convertfromraw --format vdi
/path/to/FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64.qcow2
/output/path/FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64.vdi

We should think about providing VDI (or any other format) files instead of QCOW
until VirtualBox fully supports running that format.

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