Cloud
Finalisation
Image saving
- VirtualBox to Raw format:
$ vboxmanage internalcommands converttoraw disk_image.vdi disk_image.img
- Raw to Qcow2 format (for more efficient compression):
$ qemu-img convert -c -f raw -O qcow2 disk_image.img disk_image.qcow2
- Compression:
$ cat disk_image.qcow2 | gzip > disk_image.qcow2.gz
Web server
- For VM access:
$ scp disk_image.qcow2.gz apcssh:/groups/.../Downloads/...
MarketPlace registration
See Managing disk image.