lonestarbta.blogg.se - To convert .vmdk to iso

We are assuming that you have the VirtualBox software which is free and open-source (FOSS) virtual machine creator tool. So, to start the conversion first of all the VirtualBox should be installed on the system to use the VBoxManage command-line tool. Here we are using the command-line tool on Windows 10 but the commands given here are same for Mac and Linux systems too. It is also very useful to convert and use other format Virtual Disks in different Virtual Machines.Īfter the conversion of ISO image to VDI, the user can directly boot the OS to install it converted VDI or VDMK format for admin or testing purposes. Not only to VDI but also using the same VBOXmanage tools of VirtualBox the user can convert the ISO image file to VDMK or VHD. Yes, this is the method in which we directly convert the ISO image file (.iso) into VDI (virtual disk image) format using VirtualBox. Although you can use directly the ISO file to boot any OS on VirtualBox, HyperV or VMware Workstations, however, in case you don’t want to first boot & install ISO file to convert it to VDI or VDMK (virtual hard drives) format. Note that ISO as in ISO9660 has nothing to do with any of the above or your story / case.The ISO file is a widely used Disk file format for installing different bootable operating systems. I'm not familiar with tools on Windows though so I don't know if there's one can do that.

It might even be possible to attach the VHDX of the installation (in read-only mode) to the host and perform a direct drive-to-drive clone. If you have set up SMB share or so on the host, you can probably dump it directly over the virtual network to a volume on your host instead. Then you can use whatever writer tool you like on Windows to write the raw image to a USB flash drive.

Unmount and shutdown detach the VHDX that contains the image from the VM and attach it to the host optionally perform a checksum (with 7-zip or whatever) and compare with the one you got in step 4.

Use dd or even just cat to dump a raw image of the virtual disk where the installation resides to the filesystem mounted in step 3 you might even optionally use tee additionally to perform a checksum (e.g., sha1sum on-the-fly.

Partition and format the virtual disk attached in step 1 as NTFS or exFAT and mount the filesystem.

Attach a live iso to the VM and boot that instead of the installation.

Create an attach another VHDX to the VM.

I might do this instead to avoid any bug/flaw in any of the conversion tool: