For details on QEMU, see http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page.
Procedure
- Download the latest version of QEMU from http://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/.
- Install QEMU with the default settings.
- Open a Command Prompt window (
cmd.exe) using an account with administrator privileges. - Convert the Virtual Machine Disk (
*.vmdk) by typing the following command:qemu-img.exe convert [-f fmt] [-O output_fmt] filename output_filename.For example:"C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-img.exe" convert -f vmdk -O vmdk C:\ESX_xpsp3en_offices_noab.vmdk C:\ESX_xpsp3en_offices_noab_converted.vmdk
The
*.vmdk file can be used to create an OVA
file using VirtualBox.
