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Migrate qcow2 images from KVM to VMWare

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qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk myImage.qcow2 myImage.vmdk

vmkfstools -i myImage.vmdk outputName.vmdk -d thin


Ref's:
https://blog.ktz.me/migrate-qcow2-images-from-kvm-to-vmware/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37794846/convert-qcow2-to-vmdk-and-make-it-esxi-6-0-compatible

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