Thank you, Jan. I tried the first way you told me. It works. What I
did is as follows:

VBoxManage clonehd –format RAW ubuntu.vdi ubuntu.img

Then, I created a parcel with "isr_admin import"

Best,
Hao

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 11:31:48AM -0500, hhan_at_wm.edu wrote:
>> I install ubuntu on virtualbox. Then, I use the vdi file to make a
>> parcel with "isr_admin import" on server. On the client side, I do the
>> following things
> ...
>> After that, I can launch VirtualBox, but an error occurs
>>
>> "FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted."
>>
>> Could anyone tell me what's wrong?
>
> Looks to me like you are doing everything right. I haven't used import
> myself, I think it was intended to import raw-disk images and not .vdi
> files so you may have to convert the image to a raw disk first and
> import that.
>
> Another way to get started is to create an empty disk image on the
> server, run isr resume <parcelname> and then run the Ubuntu install on
> the VirtualBox instance that was started by isr.
>
> Jan
>