![]() ![]() One of the utilities in QEMU is qemu-img where the help file reveals the value of this simple utility, when it comes to converting image types. Parallels Workstation comes with a few command line tools for basic drive manipulation like prl_disk_tool or prl_conver, but the best converter, I found, is the latest Open Source project QEMU. This article is about the findings of that “journey”. So, I wanted to look further into other options. I also found an interesting tool MakeVM – that looked very promising, but the demo version would not convert an image size larger than 2GB. There was VMware vCenter Converter ( free software – ), but it did not by giving a message the it could not recognized it. I found a very nice article on how to convert to a plain hard drive image using Parallels Image Tool that comes with Parallels Desktop( ), but I had no access to a Mac and wanted to see if there is a way to do this on Windows. The simplest way I wanted to approach this issue is by converting the hard drive image to something simpler like a dd image. ![]() To my surprise, I did not find many help on this issue on-line and did not find tools that would interpret the file system in Parallels’ hard drive images. The other day, talking to one of the analysts in Dallas, a question emerged about analyzing Parallels’ virtual machine hard drives. ![]()
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