I had 2 files, an OVF file and a VMDK file. You should have qemu-img command if you have qemu installed, but sometimes it falls through the cracks If you have some feel free to send them to me. I’ve even written a script for it at the end!Ī quick disclaimer, this has not been extensively tested on VMWare VMs. Fortunately the process is quite easy if you have a good guide (like this one). However while VMWare and VirtualBox’s disk image’s have pretty good interchangeability, they don’t with default qemu. I personally have had great experiences with qemu-kvm, the built in hypervisor on Linux. They are both great products as far as I can tell, and I don’t fault anyone for using them (just don’t download the Virtualbox extension pack at work!). The most popular desktop hypervisor’s are Oracle’s VirtualBox and VMWare’s Player Workstation. That’s not the focus of today’s article however.
There are also plenty of reasons to have a separate machine, from testing to having a safe environment for malware to run. Whether it’s stuff from VulnHub, Kali Linux, A forensic or reverse engineering distro, there are plenty out there. If you’ve been involved in the tech industry for a while I’m sure you’ve been using Virtual Machines and hypervisors, at least a little. How to convert VMWare (vmdk) and VirtualBox (.ova) VM files to QEMU-KVM VM disk files (.qcow2)
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