QEMU
QEMU Installation
MACOS
brew install qemu
which qemu-img
Create Image using QEMU
qemu-img create -f qcow2 ubuntu-desktop-22.04.qcow2 10G
Convert file
tar -xvf file.ova: extract ova file to get vmdk file
qemu-img info $imagefile
qemu-img check $imagefile
qemu-img convert -f vmdk
qemu-img convert -f qcow2 ubuntu-desktop-22.04.qcow2 -O vdi ubuntu-desktop-22.04.vdi
qemu-img convert -f raw ubuntu-desktop-22.04.img -O qcow2 ubuntu-desktop-22.04-new.qcow2: raw image are not compressed
qemu-img convert -pc -Oqcow2 file.qcow2 compressedfile.qcow2: compress file and show percentage
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