VMware's VMDK format virtual machine converted to QCOW2 format

Today, in response to the needs of other departments, the VMware window2008 virtual machine in a notebook is converted to the QCOW2 format and run on the corporate server.

It took a lot of time to do it for the first time

First of all:

The image of the virtual machine is divided into several vmdk files, so we should make these vmdk files into a vmdk file.

Use the Vmware-vdiskmanager.exe command under Windows, which is under the VMware installation directory.

"H:\Windows Server R2 x64 2\windows server R2 x64 2.vmdk" #我这里需要被合的源vmdk文件

"H:\TEMP\SINGLE.VMDK"#合一后的目标文件

Start to search Baidu after very tangled, there are many vmdk files, the source file should be which. After finding is a different from the others,

The rest is added in the following numbers, such as: Windows Server R2 x64 2-0-000001-s001.vmdk, and so on.

That is the shortest name in the vmdk file.

The complete command is as follows:

C:\Program Files (x86) \VMware\VMware workstation>. \vmware-vdiskmanager.exe-r "H:\Windows Server-R2 x64 2\windo

WS-Server R2 x64 2.vmdk "-T 0" H:\TEMP\SINGLE.VMDK "

And then

Copy it to the Linux system.

In Then,

Convert the vmdk file to the QCOW2 format using the qemu-img command.

command below, I changed the SINGLE.VMDK name above to WINDOWS2008.VMDK.

Qemu-img convert-f vmdk-o qcow2 windows2008.vmdk windows2008.qcow2

At last

Normal use of the virtual machine inside the KVM

VMware's VMDK format virtual machine converted to QCOW2 format