Try to use qemu-img directly, like this: qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw Your-Original-Disk-Image.vmdk Raw-Disk-Image.img Zoltan On 3/29/2013 1:08 PM, Markus Falb wrote: > I try do use one of the images available from [1] > These images comes in two flavors, one vmx, one ovf. > > I do not know how to convert one of these to centos6-libvirt-kvm > > virt-convert gives me an error > > $ virt-convert -i ovf -o virt-image path_to_image.ovf > ERROR Couldn't convert disks: Disk conversion failed with exit status > 1: qemu-img: Could not open 'path_to_image.vmdk' > > The vmdk does exist. It seems that qemu-img can not handle this vmdk > format. I am also not sure if v2v could do it. > > I think the essence of my post is the question > Is it possible to use vmx or ovf images with kvm, possibly after > converting them? > > [1] http://info.puppetlabs.com/download-learning-puppet-VM.html