1
I need to take a live USB, that has Ubuntu 12.04 and a ton of customization on it, and create a virtual machine in Virtualbox from it. I ultimately actually want to get this installation up to Google Compute Engine, but I want to start by creating a local virtual machine first (I know how to get up to Google Cloud from Virtualbox, I just can't figure out how to get from the Live USB to Virtualbox)
Note: Remastersys isn't around anymore, so that's not an option.
I have spent a significant amount of time just trying to start over and reinstall everything, but many versions of things on there I can't find anymore. It's really just one problem after another.
Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you for your help in advance.
Note: I had exported the drive as an .img, but even after converting to an .iso, virtualbox says "no bootable drive". (Obviously there's an issue with the boot sector. I'm assuming it might not be in the right place after the conversion)
There is a iso file to boot from vm and can boot from host usb, but i forgot the iso name, you can try to search from google or wait for 6 hours I will back home and give you the iso :) – Bilo – 2015-06-27T05:46:53.067
I am guessing you might be talking about Plop? I have that, and I can "boot" from the USB, and use it as a live USB, but unfortunately, that doesn't solve my problem. I need to get this running up on Google Cloud (compute engine). I need to create a virtual machine with a "copy on write" disk type, and then do a conversion on the .vdi file. If I do that with the plop bootloader, I will just end up loading plop into Compute Engine, and not my Ubuntu installation. Thank you though, I appreciate it! – Len Paulsen – 2015-06-27T06:13:24.263