SvHCI Create a VMDK/VHD>RAW Disk Converter Virtual Machine (VM)

This article is intended for administrators wishing to convert existing VMs running on VMware or Hyper-V and convert them to the necessary RAW disk format to be copied into SvHCI.
This is one example and other methods will likely work also.

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Information

This document will detail the creation of a machine to easily convert existing VM disk images to the SvHCI RAW disk format.

1. Install a Ubuntu Desktop instance with internet access, such that we can install the qemu-convert utility easily, alongside a web browser to push our converted VM disk images into SvHCI.

2 . Run:

sudo apt update

3. Run:

sudo apt-get install qemu-utils

See Also

https://stormagic.com/manual/