Convert .iso Image to .qcow2 Image

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 Procedure to convert .iso image to .qcow2 images is as beow

  1. No any direct command available to convert .iso to .qcow2 image so first convert it into raw image then raw image can be convert into qcow2 form.
  2. First Create a VDI image using VirtualBox: Create VM (In Virtual Box) using .iso image with VDI Hard disk file type as shown in below
Choose Hard disk Fie type

3. Convert .vdi to raw format: Now you can convert .vdi format to raw format using the VBoxManage command-line tool that ships with VirtualBox.
In Linux, 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/image.vdi image.img --format raw

4. Convert Raw image to .qcow2 Format:
$ qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 image.img image.qcow2

5. Now you can use .qcow2 image . If you have image in vmdk format then it will also convert firstly in raw image and the convert into .qcow2 format by following commands:
$qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw image.vmdk image.img
$qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 image.vmdk image.qcow2

6. Enjoy !!!

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