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		duggan on Dec 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional ... A VirtualBox disk, for those on OS X or other systems without kvm support - https://hostr.co/1mw2Hg3JIvJi Or if you want to do it yourself: 1) brew install qemu # and prepare to wait! 2) qemu-img convert -O raw ubuntu-core-alpha-01.img ubuntu-core-alpha-01.raw 3) VBoxManage convertfromraw ubuntu-core-alpha-01.raw ubuntu-core-alpha-01.vdi

duggan on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

And finally, a Vagrant box! https://atlas.hashicorp.com/duggan/boxes/ubuntu-core-alpha

(Guest additions was trickier than usual).

president on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

You can also convert to vmdk (for VMware):

qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk ubuntu-core-alpha-01.img ubuntu-core-alpha-01.vmdk

duggan on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

The vmdk probably makes more sense, since it works with VirtualBox too.

https://hostr.co/86EDIcFMF7QH for the lazy ;)

nwrk on Dec 10, 2014 | | [–]

Thanks ! :-)

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