
How to convert a Physical Disk to a VMware VMDK image Steve Tech Tutorials JanuNo Comments I was recently wanting to convert all of my old hard drives from old computers to VMDKs so that I could run the drive virtually in VMware, but I couldn’t find a way to do it so that’s why I’m writing this now.It's possible to distribute the virtual appliance in.vmdk itself but if I can distribute an ISO customer can install it on any hardware or any. Qemu-img convert -f vmdk linux.vmdk -O raw linux.raw What I'm trying to achieve is to install my application and the dependencies in the VM and create an ISO image and distribue it to my customers.How can I convert an vmware.vmdk image to an ISO image in order to burn to a DVD disk and copy to a hard drive.I created an iso using poweriso from the vmdk files of my dev machine however. I researched and found post on creating iso from vmdk files. There are lot of free tools in the market to convert disk format of virtual machines to make it compatible to different hypervisors. Create a bootable Windows 10 usb having the same software as my virtual machine so I can just install it on that physical machine and viola I have Win 10 + VS 2017 + SQL Server 2016. Throughout the documentation, there will be information that is prepended by labels that are defined below: macOS Indicates the following section or sentence. You may need some tools to convert VHD to VMDK if you are importing VM from Hyper-V to VMware ESXi because ESXi host will not understand the disk format of Hyper-V virtual machine (VHD). Each Hypervisor uses different virtual machine disk formats such as VMDK for VMware virtual disk and VHD for Hyper-V based virtual machine disks. Disk Converter tools are essential especially when you are migrating virtual machine workloads between two hypervisors.
