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.