![]() VBoxManage clonehd -format RAW ubuntu.vdi ubuntu.img In case you would like to first create raw uncompressed image of format. qemu-img convert -f vdi -O qcow2 ubuntu.vdi ubuntu.qcow2 Convert vdi to raw img ![]() Basically what we are doing is converting vdi to a raw disk images. Now lets convert VDI created to Qcow2 format using qemu. If it’s successful on cloning, you should see a vdi disk image file. VBoxManage clonehd box-disk1.vmdk ubuntu.vdi -format vdi The following command is used to clone vmdk to vdi. Navigate to the directory containing vdi image file cd ~Īs you can see, i have VMDK file called box-disk1.vmdk, i will first clone it to VDI format then make qcow2 image. Ubuntu / Debian: sudo apt-get -y install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virtinst bridge-utils Convert vdi to qcow2. Install qemu and kvm packages to use in conversion sudo dnf -y install qemu-kvm libvirt virt-install bridge-utilsĬentOS 7 sudo yum -y install qemu-kvm libvirt virt-install bridge-utils We’ll cover steps of converting VDI to Qcow on the Fedora, CentOS and Ubuntu. Users can easily convert qcow disk images to the qcow2 format. The main difference with the original is that qcow2 supports multiple virtual machine snapshots through a new, flexible model for storing snapshots. Qcow2 is an updated version of the qcow format, intended to supersede it. It is a representation of a fixed size block device in a file. ![]() One of the disk image formats supported by QEMU processor emulator is the Qcow/Qcow2.
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