I have an image file (linux based image) and want to convert it to VHD so that it can be used to create hyper-V VMs.
I used "qemu-img convert" to convert raw to vpc format, but vpc doesnt work for hyper-V and vhd is not supported by "qemu-img convert".
What would be the right way to do this?
The image only has one partition:
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.8kB 4295MB 4295MB primary ext3 boot4 Answers
VhdTool should be able to do the conversion.
vhdtool.exe /convert myimage.rawI'm not sure for how long this has been the case, but since this is the #1 search result for this question, I'll answer it currently. VHD is currently supported by qemu-img. The argument for VHD is vpc. This was found here
In case link breaks, here's a copy/past
Converting images from one format to another is generally straightforward. qemu-img convert: raw, qcow2, VDI, VMDK
The qemu-img convert command can do conversion between multiple formats, including raw, qcow2, VDI (VirtualBox), VMDK (VMWare) and VHD (Hyper-V). Table 7.1. qemu-img format strings
**Image format** **Argument to qemu-img**
raw raw
qcow2 qcow2
VDI (VirtualBox) vdi
VMDK (VMWare) vmdk
VHD (Hyper-V) vpcThis example will convert a raw image file named centos63.dsk to a qcow2 image file.
$ qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 centos64.dsk centos64.qcow2To convert from vmdk to raw, you would do:
$ qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw centos64.vmdk centos64.imgNote
The -f format flag is optional. If omitted, qemu-img will try to infer the image format.
VBoxManage: VDI (VirtualBox) to raw
If you've created a VDI image using VirtualBox, you can convert it to raw format using the VBoxManage command-line tool that ships with VirtualBox. On Mac OS X, VirtualBox stores images by default in the ~/VirtualBox VMs/ directory. The following example creates a raw image in the current directory from a VirtualBox VDI image.
$ VBoxManage clonehd ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/fedora18.vdi fedora18.img --format raw
if anyone is still interested of converting raw disk image to vhd, use the following command:
qemu>qemu-img.exe convert e:\src.img -O vpc -o subformat=dynamic f:\dst.vhdDon't forget to change presented filenames to your ones.
1As indicated above by apple16 there is a quite similar question here that circumvents the problem that VhdTool seems not available anymore. Virtualbox comes with a tool called "VBoxManage" which works just perfect. Provided you've got a plain image file of your disk using e.g. dd, you can do this:
VBoxManage convertfromraw myfile.dd myfile.vhd --format VHD
