contributing to open source

[Glen Barber]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:37:01PM -0400, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2016-05-27 23:30, Kefeh Collins wrote:
> > hello
> >     please i need help installing freebsd using the virtual box
> >     actually am at my concluding phase but the problem is i downloaded a VM
> > image with the .vhd.xz as well as the .raw.xz extensions
> >     but i cant unzip it and i cant locate it when choosing a virtual
> > optical disk file
> > any help is very much appreciated
> > 
> > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Kefeh Collins <kefehcollins at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> hello
> >>  i am a second year computer science student, program in c and c++ and am
> >> interested in contributing in operating system (kernel) directed projects
> >> please i need guidance
> >>
> >> thanks in advance
> >>
> 
> To unzip it, type:
> unxz imagename.vhd.xz
> 
> Then you will have a .vhd file and be able to use it normally.
> 
> .vhd files are for Microsoft HyperV, so it is likely not the image you
> want. VirtualBox and VMware uses the .vmdk file
> 

VirtualBox should recognize the VHD format just fine.

The only formats I am aware do not work with VirtualBox are the '.raw'
and '.qcow2' (and I think the '.qcow2' do work somewhat recently).  Just
a "FWIW" statement.

I actually haven't checked if the raw format works in a while, so it is
possible it may work now.

Glen

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