Re: cli guru needed

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On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Patrick
O'Callaghan<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 10:34 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote:
>> Is there a way to combine these 2 commands to cut my time in half?
>>
>> VBoxManage internalcommands  converttoraw file.vdi file.raw
>> then I have to run
>> dd if=file.raw of=/dev/sdb
>
> Assuming the second line is correct (i.e. you really want to copy
> file.raw bit-for-bit to a physical device), why not do it directly:
>
> VBoxManage internalcommands  converttoraw file.vdi /dev/sdb
>


Looks like VBoxManage won't write to a directory, darn.

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