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If you have any experience or comments, feel free to leave them on this post or on the Github page. Now bash is not my best language, but for this instance I think it is the best option for this use case.

Now if you are thinking to yourself “This process only takes a few steps in bash, I should script this!”, then we are on the same wavelength, cause that’s what I did.

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You may need to install the guest drivers, for optimal performance. qemu-img convert -O qcow2 Sniffer2019-disk001.vmdk Sniffer2019.qcow2Īnd there you go, a perfectly good qcow2 image to import to qemu. 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.

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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. The only difference is that they are used for the floppy disks (create a new floppy disk, copy the floppy disks).How to convert VMWare (vmdk) and VirtualBox (.ova) VM files to QEMU-KVM VM disk files (.qcow2) In the toolbar, you have the same options as the options available for hard disks. As floppy disks are not really used anymore, you will not see them so often. If you click on the Floppy disks, you will see all the floppy disks associated with the virtual machine. The only difference is that they are used for the optical disks (create a new optical drive, copy the virtual drive and others).

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ISO files associated with virtual machines. If you click on the Optical disks you will see all attached optical drives or.

Refresh – refresh the Virtual Media Manager.

Properties – check the properties of the virtual hard disk and change the disk size based on your needs.

Search – search the virtual hard disk in the Virtual Media Manager.

Once you do that, the virtual machine will not be able to start again.

Release – release or detach the virtual hard disk from the virtual machine.

You can read more on this page Remove the virtual machine from the Oracle VM VirtualBox You can do it only if the virtual hard disk is detached from the virtual machine.

Remove – remove the virtual hard disk from the Virtual Media Manager.

You can read more on this link Move virtual machine in the Oracle VM VirtualBox

Move – move the virtual hard disk to a new location.

Copy – copy the virtual hard disk and create the new virtual hard disk based on the cloned hard disk.

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We already explained how to create a new virtual machine and assign the virtual hard disk. There are three file types including VDI, VHD and VMDK. You will need to do the same procedure once you start the creation of the new virtual machine.

Create – create new virtual hard disks.

This includes the disks that are previously created, but not associated with any of the virtual machines.

Add – add the virtual hard disk into Virtual Media Manager.

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