![]() This software uses algorithms that are highly effective to recover corrupt VMDK files from VMware virtual drives. You can only enjoy the complete features if you purchase the full version.This means that it will not make any unwarranted changes to your recovered files that will alter the form of your data This is because it uses a wizard-mode form of recovery by asking you security questions to easily find your lost files ![]() The final step is to install open-vm-tools for desktop or server. I was converting an Ubuntu machine and it booted successfully without any additional work. Be sure to match the Linux distribution of your source machine. Once you have the VMDK file you can create a new Linux virtual machine in VMWare Workstation. I looked into using Qemu in Cygwin instead of Starwind V2V Converter but at the time Qemu packages weren’t available for Cygwin but I guess you could compile it from source and install the dependencies if you really want to go that way. You can also use Qemu to convert a physical disk directly to VMDK file without creating the raw image file first. On Linux you can use Qemu to convert img files to VMDK and other virtual disk formats. Starwind V2V has the option to convert a physical disk to a VMDK file but it didn’t show my Linux disks as a source, only the Windows ones. The app is easy enough to use so I won’t show all the steps here, just choose Local file for the source and Local file VMDK as the destination. I used Starwind V2V Converter to convert the raw img file to a VMDK file, it is free but you have to supply some personal details to get the download link. Note: I looked into using Windows Subsystem for Linux instead of Cygwin but from what I Googled WSL doesn’t have the ability to address block devices so dd won’t work. dd if=/dev/sdc of=/cygdrive/d/diskimage.img Once you identified the source and destination you can run dd to create the image file. I wanted to write the image file to my Windows D: drive which will be mounted as /cygdrive/d. You can read about Linux device naming here. The device name of your disks will depend on the type and number of attached devices, in my case it was /dev/sdc (the third disk). Once inside Cygwin run the following to identify your attached disks: cd /dev It is important to run Cygwin as administrator in Windows or you will get permission denied errors in Linux when you run dd. I just accepted all the defaults during installation. To run dd on Windows requires Cygwin, there are no additional settings or packages required. Potentially you could use disk imaging software to clone the disk in a virtual machine but the free Windows ones I tried didn’t have the necessary drivers included in their boot environments for VMWare disk controllers. At the time I couldn’t find a free native Windows tool that would create a raw image of the Linux disk. In my case I had to create a virtual machine from a disk /off-line machine for VMware Workstation on a Windows machine. Why this scenarioįor on-line Linux machines you can use vCenter Converter to create a virtual machine the catch is it only supports ESXi. ![]() I was using Windows to do this but I’ll mention some Linux instructions as well. ![]() The basic steps are creating a raw image file of the physical disk using dd and converting the raw image file to a VMware disk/vmdk file. In this post I will show you how to convert a Linux disk or raw image file to a VMDK file so you can create a VMWare Workstation virtual machine from it.
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