Convert Qcow2 To Iso

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Qemu-img convert -f qcow2 myImage.qcow2 -O vmdk myNewImage.vmdk This command gives me a vmdk image which is only VMWare Workstation compatible. Therefore, in order to make it ESXi compatible I have to use the vmkfstools with the following command. Vmkfstools -i myImage.vmdk outputName.vmdk -d thin. Qcow is a file format for disk image files used by QEMU, a hosted virtual machine monitor. It stands for 'QEMU Copy On Write' and uses a disk storage optimization strategy that delays allocation of storage until it is actually needed.Files in qcow format can contain a variety of disk images which are generally associated with specific guest operating systems.

Cd /media/wherever-the-image-is/ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-img convert test.qcow2 -O raw disk.img Move /media/wherever-the-image-is/disk.img somewhere that you're not about to write to. If you're planning to write it to the disk that it's currently sitting on, you'll want to stick it on a separate internal disk, or, worst-comes-to. In this video, I will be using qemu-img to convert an ISO file into a QCow2 file. Using any suitable archive program, unzip original fullk9-R-XRV9000-633.tar to obtain ISO image: xrv9k-fullk9-x-6.3.3.iso. Steps below are based on xrv9k-R-XRV9000-633 creation, for other image deployment, use proper names respectively. SSH to EVE and login as root, from cli and create temporary working directory on the EVE’s root.

Just because even I forget from time to time.

You need to do this as administrator, even better if the disk doesn’t have a drive letter or mounted in any way under Windows.

In my case I picked up a 486SX with an aging Fujitsu disk.

qemu-img.exe convert -f raw -O qcow2 .PhysicalDrive2 fujitsu_MPB3021AT.qcow2

And as fast as your machine can read the disk, you’ll have your Qcow2 disk image. As of Qemu 2.9.0 the formats include:

  • blkdebug
  • blkreplay
  • blkverify
  • bochs
  • cloop
  • dmg
  • luks
  • nbd
  • null-aio
  • null-co
  • parallels
  • qcow
  • qcow2
  • qed
  • quorum
  • raw
  • replication
  • sheepdog
  • vdi
  • vhdx
  • vmdk
  • vpc
  • vvfat

Which is quite a list. Obviously since I’m reading a physical disk, the format is RAW. I just output it to Qemu for my personal ease.

Also once the image was created I could quickly run it under Qemu, and discover that yes this was a machine running Windows 95.

qemu-system-i386.exe -hda fujitsu_MPB3021AT.qcow2 -soundhw es1370 -vga cirrus

So there you go from a “dead system” to at least fully recovered data in minutes. KVM may get all the pres excited but it’s nothing without the awesome support of Qemu!

Cisco ISE specifications:

Convert Qcow2

Download the ISE image from below link /mixcraft-8-pro-studio-serial-key.html.

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1. Login in EVE via SSH and Create ISE image folder in the EVE.

2. Using WinSCP / FileZilla via SCP or SSH connect to your EVE and upload ise-2.6.0.156.SPA.x86_64.iso file to this directory.

3. From EVE CLI go to newly created ISE folder and rename uploaded ISO file to cdrom.iso.

4. Create virtio HDD for ISE

5. Create new LAB in the EVE and add ISE node, connect it to Home Management cloud (Cloud0). Settings for ISE node are: CPU x4, RAM x16384M, 1 xEthernet. Console VNC, during install first time.

Qemu line in Imge edit:

-machine type=pc,accel=kvm -smbios type=1,product=KVM -serial mon:stdio -nographic -no-user-config -nodefaults -display none -vga std -rtc base=utc

6. Start ISE node and when setup prompt appears, shutdown ISE node.

7. Check lab ID number on EVE side bar “Lab details”, For Example:

8. EVE CLI: Convert image from lab tmp folder to defaults image location. In the command below is used lab ID (above) and as we added on lab single node, node ID is 1. ISE image foldername match what we created before. Number 0 in the line below is user POD number. Admin pod is 0.

9. Delete install CD ISO from image folder:

Convert Qcow2 To Bootable Iso

10. Do Fix permissions:

Advanced instructions on how to make your image smaller in size (sparsify&compress). RECOMMENDED !

  1. After done all the steps above and default image is created, you can compress its HDD and make it smaller.

IMPORTANT: for compressing an image you must have sufficient free space on your EVE host, free space must exceed the total space (200GB in this example, We created 200Gb virtio HDD for ISE) of the HDD you plan to shrink. The space needed can vary but will be the total space of the disk to be shrunk plus the size of the final sparsified and compressed image. To be safe you should have double the size of the HDD you want to shrink as free space on your EVE host. In our example we needed 200GB +GB of free HDD space. Once this process is done, the temporary file(s) will be deleted and free space reclaimed.

  1. From the CLI: go to your ISE image directory:

Convert Qcow2 To Iso Reader

perform the sparsify command:

Convert Qcow2 To Iso Bootable

  1. It can take some time and another compressed image will be created in the same image directory
  2. now you can rename original hda.qcow2 file to orig.qcow2
  1. Rename the compressed image name to hda.qcow2:
  1. now you can test your new compressed image on a lab, just wipe the node and start it.
  2. If the compressed node works fine, you can delete your original source image:

You can also visit on eve-ng site, if you are facing any issue.