Convert a qcow file to vmdk in Windows

Problem:

How do you convert a .qcow2 file o .vmdk?

Solution:

Install qemu-img using Chocolatey:

cinst qemu-img

Switch to the qemu-img directory:

cd C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\qemu-img

Perform the conversion:

qemu-img convert -f qcow2 C:\Temp\inputfile.qcow2 -O vmdk C:\Temp\outputfile.vmdk

One Reply to “Convert a qcow file to vmdk in Windows”

Very good post. It worked perfectly.
I converted qcow2 to vhdx Hyper-V hard disk file. Thanks

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