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Extract files from VMDK
7ZIP is able to open and extract VMDK files. You may try out its command-line version.
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Shrinking a preallocated VMDK
Have you checked if the disk is sparse or preallocated? If it's sparse, then you can follow the guide in the article already mentioned by John (defrag in Windows and then shrink using VMware Tools). ...
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How to repaire a vmdk that is "is corrupted and cannot be repaired."
Try using vmware-vdiskmanager to repair the image.
Since VMware already likely tried running this command on its own, this probably will not help, but it's the easiest thing to try.
On macOS with ...
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qemu-img convert CentOS7 vmdk to qcow2 and vice versa error
I might be wrong, however, you could try
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/converter
I was converting VMDK to VHDX using this soft, and job was done.
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Is it possible to convert a VMWare vmdk image file to physical hardisk drive?
You didn't mention what OS you're using and Alex's answer will not work on Windows and someone asked how to do this on Windows in the comments, so here's how:
You should use Cygwin to be able to use ...
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Deploy OVF Package Fails
So, it turns out I had to simply delete the myVm.mf file. It then worked no problem.
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Extract files from VMDK
Use 7zip with full path extraction to folder:
7z x -o<destination-folder> box-disk1.vmdk
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Is it possible to convert a VMWare vmdk image file to physical hardisk drive?
Try UDPCast
The idea is to stream the whole your vmdk out of it's Virtual Machine to physical machine, where it is written to the physical hdd.
Procedure is outlined below.
Since you have a vmdk ...
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ESXi 6.0 exports empty OVF files?
Turns out the ones with empty OVF files were the machines that had a PCI Passthrough device set up. I removed the device and was able to export the OVF. Easy enough to document which device it was ...
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Rename VMDK file in esxi 6.5
Maybe this KB Articel by VM can help you with your question.
In the articel it is described like this:
First you should stay save and have a Backup of the VM and it should
be powered down.
Also your ...
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Vmware ESXI one hard disk but 2 vmdk files
I would do this:
Check if there are snapshots taken and, if possible, delete them first
Performing a full backup
Check the configuration of the VM if there is really only one hard disk configured
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QEMU img convert invalid parameter
You should probably read the man page.
From man qemu-img:
convert [-c] [-p] [-f fmt] [-t cache] [-O output_fmt] [-o options] [-S sparse_size] filename [filename2 [...]] output_filename
Use -O vmdk ...
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How to determine disk image file format: VMDK, VHD or raw file format?
You can determine the format of a virtual disk image with the qemu-img info command. For example:
# qemu-img info amzn2-kvm-2017.12.0.20171212.2-x86_64.xfs.gpt.qcow2
image: amzn2-kvm-2017.12.0....
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Copying thin VMFS .vmdk to a NAS
You can export sparse vmdk as “ordinary” vmdk with starwind v2v and save it on NAS -
www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-v2v-converter
The VM should be off during the export.
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Migrate ESXi vm to qcow2 with settings preserved?
The BIG-IP license will "become" invalid because the software detected a hardware signature change and it no longer matches is initial dossier state when it was created (system hash for a deployed ...
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Migrate ESXi vm to qcow2 with settings preserved?
Am I doing something wrong like exporting or converting the wrong
file?
You're literally only converting the virtual disk file, not the VM description file - for a VMware VM that data is in a .vmk ...
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How to repaire a vmdk that is "is corrupted and cannot be repaired."
VMDK of one of my VMs got corrupted after my phisiscal disk got overfilled and the VM got terminated.
I tried several methods including vmware-vdiskmanager and StarWind V2V Converter, but none of them ...
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Deploy OVF Package Fails
This error occurs when an OVF image of a Virtual Appliance file is modified upon extraction. This usually occurs when a virtual image is being extracted using WinZip.
Steps to deploy an OVF image ...
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qemu-img convert CentOS7 vmdk to qcow2 and vice versa error
just posting the answer of my question because I didn't find it while searching online.
to convert CentOS7 vmdk to qcow2 I used virt-v2v command and it works like magic.
cheers.
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What are the chances of recovering any data from *-flat.vmdk file which didn't finish coping?
Try mounting it on a linux box and see. Something like
kpartx -av <image-flat.vmdk>; mount -o /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt/vmdk
You may have to force the offset etc but I've had good results ...
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Ensuring VMware ESXi storage integrity?
ESXi by itself will not do this. You have a couple options here. Either you install third party software to monitor file integrity, get a SAN that has file integrity monitoring, for example by using ...
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Converting virtual drives from .vmdk to .vhdx produces huge files
I have had a similar issue, I always use Disk2VHD now, I have tried many different methods but always end up back with this simple tool. It works brilliantly every time.
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Extract files from VMDK
Using the guestmount command on linux works for me. I'm able to mount both an Ubuntu VM with multiple .vmdk files and a Windows10 VM with a single .vmdk like this:
sudo apt-get install libguestfs-...
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