convert .vmdk files

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 16 02:54:02 UTC 2014


Hi Pete,

>>   What you have to do today is to convert the VMDK to a flat file, e.g.
>> using qemu-img.
>>
>
> ok great - installing qemu-devel on my system and running the following
> command worked great:
>
> qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw foo.vmdk foo.img
>
> i tested this by taking a current .vmdk file from my workstation i do
> development and copied it over to my new bhyve hypervisor.

  Good to hear.

> this may be a good candidate for addition to wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve -
> i'll go ahead and add this if no one objects.

  Please do :)

later,

Peter.


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