From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Jun 11 22:27:56 2015
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@hub.freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115])
 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 272A83D4
 for <freebsd-questions@hub.freebsd.org>; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:27:56 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from ch@sysconfig.org.uk)
Received: from mx.arcane.email (mx.arcane.email [54.75.251.249])
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2221D81
 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:27:55 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from ch@sysconfig.org.uk)
Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1])
 by mx.arcane.email (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6687E1D7
 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:27:49 +0100 (BST)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=sysconfig.org.uk;
 s=selector1; t=1434061669;
 bh=rOvCc2+rOSJVZ2h9Juk8XxA/t/wsa+xkq3Jru9eiCYA=;
 h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To;
 b=pOuFbNGXp21F8IloNxRWL8FezSn8so8Bx2JEWr6cnXCldjuMH4OulexNP8wwSr/NT
 QnKhKZJtBmzbhJa5qQqoBoTqYW/VLbxzeer1YnfBtDbDy0FIe5wWnZOkF+bkYHpAiM
 2P8AAvkB1+PrY9UEsQhDvQRsOrc6NxhDW+24stKI=
X-Gateway: Arcane.Email 1.0
Message-ID: <557A0B64.9050808@sysconfig.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:27:48 +0100
From: Carsten Heesch <ch@sysconfig.org.uk>
User-Agent: Arcane.Email 1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Softlayer VPS: Loading FreeBSD
References: <6277AB8E-EDF5-436A-B1A9-5C041041E165@hub.org>
 <CAKE2PDtCki+7v3wN5BNoao8v3eiqgZb_0q27hocjqgANObaEbg@mail.gmail.com>
 <64385A15-591B-4933-BD83-45EAA5A372C5@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <64385A15-591B-4933-BD83-45EAA5A372C5@hub.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
 <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:27:56 -0000


> That gave us IPMI access for the Bare Metal server we put in place,
> but no KVM access for VPS … for VPS, I need to create an ISO of my
> install, upload that and then they effectively ‘dd’ it to the VPS,
> which is cool, but I need to figure out how to create an image based
> on a VirtualBox build on a Mac OS X system :)

If they really just "dd" it, then a RAW image of your Virtualbox
instance should work, shouldn't it?

Choose QCOW as the disk format in VirtualBox, and then use "qemu-img
convert" to make a raw image.

qemu-img apparently understands other formats like VDI and VDMK too, but
I have only ever used QCOW-to-RAW myself for similar situations with
other providers.

I haven't got any OSX devices available at the moment, but apparently
Qemu is available in Macports and should contain qemu-img.


Cheers
Carsten