It is neither useful nor does it make any sense.

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. 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. Though I use this quite often it is not a common scenario - never heard about anybody else using iso-files like this. If you are not using a TurnKey installation, see the TKLPatch installation notes. The iso-file still has to be renamed to name-flat.vmdk and you have to create the descriptor.vmdk manually. First we need to get qemu-img, a tool bundled with qemu (KVM's virtualization backend) to convert the VM disk to a raw image, and TKLPatch, the TurnKey customization mechanism to package the ISO. We recommend to select a software program from our list and install it on your computer to achieve ISO to OVA conversion. In the ESXi environment an iso-file that has been modified by isohybrid can be directly used as a bootable vmdk. Changing the file extension does not change the file format. 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.

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