The process is quick and safe, eliminating any chances of data corruption or loss thanks to VSS snapshots. Boot up StarWind V2V Converter on your physical machine, choose the desired physical source, opt for Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure (the cloud of your choice) and press convert. You also have the ability to convert your physical volumes, disks, or entire physical machines into instances in the public cloud without any intermediary steps. Data consistency is preserved throughout the migration. Simply start StarWind V2V Converter on a physical machine and convert it into a virtual one located on a remote server. It allows converting physical disks or volumes into a variety of formats: VHD/VHDX, VMDK, QCOW, and IMG/RAW.

StarWind V2V Converter enables the conversion of a physical machine into a virtual one that resides on a Hyper-V, ESXi, Xen Project, or another industry-standard hypervisor server.

StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) OEM.

También hay programas de remasterización. Hay formas de montar un VMDK directamente - me viene a la mente vmware discmount al igual que su homólogo en linux o puede convertirlo a varios formatos con Programa qemu-img. It is neither useful nor does it make any sense. Una ISO es una imagen de disco de un CD específicamente, y el VMDK es de un disco duro. I am sure that most VMware admins would tell you: iso to vmdk is as useful as apple to oranges. The only useful usecase for an ISO - to - VMDK converter tool is if you have a Linux-LiveCD and want to boot this one file in as many different scenarios as possible. The vmdk created with the workaround I mentioned is not compatible with any standard partitioning tools - you can not write to it easily and lots of additional problems turn up. The same process can be apply to users converting to a VDI. This format works for both VMware and VirtualBox.

So to make it short: normally there is no need to convert isos to vmdks - because it does not make sense unless you have very special needs. In this video, I will show you how to convert an ISO file to VMDK file format.

Though I use this quite often it is not a common scenario - never heard about anybody else using iso-files like this. The iso-file still has to be renamed to name-flat.vmdk and you have to create the descriptor.vmdk manually. In the ESXi environment an iso-file that has been modified by isohybrid can be directly used as a bootable vmdk. When the tool has finsihed the iso is slightly modified so that it boots after the image has been transfered to a harddisk. It was designed to eaily create an USB-bootable stick when you have a bootable ISO. There are no commandline options for ESXi to convert / create a vmdk from an Iso-file.įor Linux there exists a tools named isohybrid.

Vmdk to iso converter