I've got an old small form factor PC (x86). It boots from a CF card. I'd like to develop software for it but I don't want to use it for debugging since I might brick it. This is why I've tried creating a virtual machine from it. First, I compied the card content using dd into a raw image file. Then I used the VirtualBox's tool VirtualManager to convert it into a virtual hard drive (vhd). Following this guide.
I can mount the raw image file in Linux and read from it as well as I can use the vhd file as Secondary Master device attached to an existing Virtual Machine - but I can't boot from it. This it the error I get:
FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.
How can find out what VirtualBox is expecting from the vhd provided that I have to specify certain option for the image conversion?
Checking the log files for the VM didn't help either.
