Re: [Qemu-discuss] Running vmdk image on qemu

[Fam Zheng]

On Sun, 12/10 17:20, mahmood n wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to run ContikiOS on qemu. The 3GB downloaded file contains some 
> vmdk files
> 
> address@hidden:InstantContiki3.0$ ls -l
> total 8007536
> drwxrwxr-x 3 mahmood mahmood       4096 Aug 24  2015 caches
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mahmood mahmood       8684 Aug 25  2015 
> Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit.nvram
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mahmood mahmood 1746403328 Aug 25  2015 
> Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit-s001.vmdk
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mahmood mahmood 1723727872 Aug 25  2015 
> Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit-s002.vmdk
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mahmood mahmood 1741881344 Aug 25  2015 
> Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit-s003.vmdk
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mahmood mahmood 1931018240 Aug 25  2015 
> Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit-s004.vmdk
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mahmood mahmood 1056571392 Aug 25  2015 
> Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit-s005.vmdk
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mahmood mahmood      65536 Aug 25  2015 
> Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit-s006.vmdk
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mahmood mahmood        874 Aug 24  2015 
> Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit.vmdk
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mahmood mahmood          0 Aug 24  2015 
> Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit.vmsd
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mahmood mahmood       3012 Aug 25  2015 
> Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit.vmx
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mahmood mahmood        393 Aug 24  2015 
> Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit.vmxf
> 
> 
> I saw some pages the way to convert vmdk to qcow2. However, it seems that the
> Contiki image is split into multiple parts. 
> Any idea for that?

Please try:

    qemu-img convert -O qcow2 Instant_Contiki_Ubuntu_12.04_32-bit.vmdk 
output.qcow2

Fam