https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=342118 Summary: virtualbox: vditool "dd" incorrectly reports size of converted image Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jnelson-suse@jamponi.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- I have an image of a HDD I took. The image is ~8GB in size. I used vditool to convert it to vdi format, but the output confused me, reporting that it was creating a new image (fixed size) of only 4.1GB (or so): vditool Copyright (c) 2004-2005 innotek GmbH. Usage: vditool <Command> [Params] Commands and params: NEW Filename Mbytes - create new image; DD Filename DDFilename - create new image from DD format image; CONVERT Filename - convert VDI image from old format; DUMP Filename - debug dump; RESETGEO Filename - reset geometry information; COPY FromImage ToImage - make image copy; COPYDD FromImage DDFilename - make a DD copy of the image; SHRINK Filename - optimize (reduce) VDI image size. jnelson@frank:/vbox/VDI> vditool dd win98.vdi win98.img vditool Copyright (c) 2004-2005 innotek GmbH. Converting VDI: from DD image file="foo.img" to file="foo.vdi"... Creating fixed image with size 4160233472 Bytes... The operation completed successfully! Writing data... .. However, as can be seen: -rw-r--r-- 1 jnelson jnelson 8455200768 2007-11-15 20:13 foo.img -rw------- 1 jnelson jnelson 8455749632 2007-11-15 20:27 foo.vdi The images are clearly about 8GB. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.