Convert VMWare image files to QEMU .img

By | February 9, 2009

Many hobby operating systems on the Internet allow the user to run them inside a virtual environment like VMWare. However, not many provide a way to run the operating system inside QEMU. With this simple command however you can convert a VMWare image file to something QEMU can read:

qemu-img convert vmware_file.vmdk -O qcow qemu_file.img

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