I have some old images of old Linux filesystems in flat file format. they can be used by Bochs, but I need to run them with Virtual Box. Virtual Box cannot use images in this format, so I need to convert these images from flat file to .vmdk file format. Is there any way to do this?
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First, install QEMU. On Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, run:
$ apt-get install qemu
Then run the following command:
$ qemu-img convert -O vmdk imagefile.dd vmdkname.vmdk
I’m assuming a flat disk image is a dd-style image. The convert operation also handles numerous other formats.
For more information about the qemu-img command, see the output of
$ qemu-img -h
Maybe you should try using Starwind V2V Converter, you can get it from here - http://www.starwindsoftware.com/converter. It also supports IMG disk format and performs sector-by sector conversion between IMG, VMDK or VHD into and from any of them without making any changes to source image. This tool is free :)
Just to give you an another option, you could use https://sourceforge.net/projects/dd2vmdk/ as well. dd2vmdk is a *nix-based program that allows you to mount raw disk images (created by dd, dcfldd, dc3dd, ftk imager, etc) by taking the raw image, analyzing the master boot record (physical sector 0), and getting specific information that is need to create a vmdk file.
Personally, imo Qemu and the Zapotek's raw2vmdk tools are the best overall options to convert dd to vmdks.
Disclosure: I am the author of this project.
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