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Converting images from one format to another is generally straightforward.

• Convert Iso To Vmware Image
• Iso To Vmdk Converter Installer
• Iso To Vmdk Converter Standalone

• ISO to VMDK converters. It doesn't seem possible to convert iso to vmdk with some kind of dedicated converter. However, you can use the ISO inside a virtualized OS in VMware, by mounting the.iso file into virtual CD/DVD drive once the virtual machine is loaded and work it from there. Updated: March 30, 2020.
• An ISO is a disk image of a CD specifically, and the VMDK is one of a hard drive. There's ways to mount a VMDK directly - vmware discmount comes to mind as does its linux counterpart vmware-mount.pl, or you can convert it to quite a few formats with qemu-img programme. There're also distro specific remastering software like remastersys you can run from your disk image to convert it.

qemu-img convert: raw, qcow2, qed, vdi, vmdk, vhd¶

An ISO is a disk image of a CD specifically, and the VMDK is one of a hard drive. There's ways to mount a VMDK directly - vmware discmount comes to mind as does its linux counterpart vmware-mount.pl, or you can convert it to quite a few formats with qemu-img programme.

The qemu-img convert command can do conversionbetween multiple formats, including qcow2, qed,raw, vdi, vhd, and vmdk.

This example will convert a raw image file named image.imgto a qcow2 image file.

Run the following command to convert a vmdk image file to a raw image file.

Run the following command to convert a vmdk image file to a qcow2 image file.

Note

The -fformat flag is optional. If omitted, qemu-imgwill try to infer the image format.

When converting an image file with Windows, ensure the virtiodriver is installed.Otherwise, you will get a blue screen when launching the imagedue to lack of the virtio driver.Another option is to set the image properties as below when youupdate the image in the Image service to avoid this issue,but it will reduce virtual machine performance significantly.

VBoxManage: VDI (VirtualBox) to raw¶

If you’ve created a VDI image using VirtualBox, you can convertit to raw format using the VBoxManage command-line toolthat ships with VirtualBox. On Mac OS X, and Linux, VirtualBoxstores images by default in the ~/VirtualBoxVMs/ directory.The following example creates a raw image in the current directoryfrom a VirtualBox VDI image.

The ISO file is a widely used Disk file format for installing different bootable operating systems. Although you can use directly the ISO file to boot any OS on VirtualBox, HyperV or VMware Workstations, however, in case you don’t want to first boot & install ISO file to convert it to VDI or VDMK (virtual hard drives) format. You can use the pre-conversion method. Yes, this is the method in which we directly convert the ISO image file (.iso) into VDI (virtual disk image) format using VirtualBox. Not only to VDI but also using the same VBOXmanage tools of VirtualBox the user can convert the ISO image file to VDMK or VHD. It is also very useful to convert and use other format Virtual Disks in different Virtual Machines.

Convert Iso To Vmware Image

For example, we can convert

• VDI to VDMK
• VDMK to VDI
• VDH to VDMK
• VDMK to VHD
• VDI to VHD

After the conversion of ISO image to VDI, the user can directly boot the OS to install it converted VDI or VDMK format for admin or testing purposes.

Here we are using the command-line tool on Windows 10 but the commands given here are same for Mac and Linux systems too.

So, to start the conversion first of all the VirtualBox should be installed on the system to use the VBoxManage command-line tool. We are assuming that you have the VirtualBox software which is free and open-source (FOSS) virtual machine creator tool.

Convert ISO to VDMK

1. Find the command prompt for Windows and if you are using the Mac 0r Linux then open your respective command-line tool.
2. Run the Command prompt under the administrative right.
3. Now, In Windows, we need to switch to the Virtualbox directory to run the commands; which is available under C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox. So the command is:
4. Once you under the directory of VirtualBox, we can run the ISO to VDMK conversion command.
5. Assuming that you successfully switched the directory, now the command is
   • Note: The filename should be replaced with the name of the ISO file along with the complete file path.
6. So, in our case, the ISO file was under the Download folder and the name of the file was miniubuntu.iso. So, the command was in this form.
7. The above command file path should be your file path where the ISO file resides. For more information see the screenshot

Iso To Vmdk Converter Installer

Right-click on the Address bar and select the Edit address option.

Iso To Vmdk Converter Standalone

You will get the path of the folder where your ISO image resides.

Convert ISO to VDI

1. Just like the ISO to VDMK.
2. Run the Command prompt under the Administrative privilege
3. Switch to the VirtualBox directory as we have done above.
4. Type the same command which is VirtualBox convertfromraw filename.ISO filename.VDI
5. The only change is the instead of writing VDMK extension write the .VDI extension

Same for VHD.

If you want to convert VDI to VDMK/VHD or VDMK to VDI or VHD to VDI/VDMK then use the same above command just instead. For example: To convert VDI to VDMK, the command will be

VBoxManage Convertfromraw C:USersRajDownlaodsxyz.VDI C:UsersRajDownlaodsxyz.VDMK

In the same for other files too you can use the VBoxManage tool for Virtual Hard disk images to convert.

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