{"id":1704,"date":"2016-12-28T00:42:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T23:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2016-12-28T00:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T23:42:47","slug":"vmdk-to-raw-converter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"VMDK to RAW converter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since last article.<\/p>\n<p>A quick one to post a tool I have been using lately to quickly convert VMDK to raw disks.<br \/>\nIndeed it is sometimes easier\/quicker to install an operating system in a virtual environement but afterwards you may want to convert the vmware disk (vmdk) to a raw disk so that you can write it to another physical media (usb, hard drive, etc).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/libyal\/libvmdk\" target=\"_blank\">libvmdk<\/a>, a library written by Joachim Metz, it is easy to write a quick graphical frontend that will read a vmdk and write it back to a raw image.<\/p>\n<p>VMDK2RAW can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/erwan.labalec.fr\/other\/VMDK2RAW.zip\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Erwan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since last article. A quick one to post a tool I have been using lately to quickly convert VMDK to raw disks. Indeed it is sometimes easier\/quicker to install an operating system in a virtual environement but afterwards you may want to convert the vmware disk (vmdk) to a raw disk so <a href='https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1704' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vmdk","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}