Came across this out there:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/raw2vmdk/

Its a command line java applet for converting raw "dd" type disk images to 
.vmdk files for use with vmware. 

Very useful for testing Astlinux on your everyday machine.

Using this tool, I was able to generate a virtual machine of a recent astlinux 
release usable on my mac under vmware fusion. 

Usage:

java -Dtype=<ide|buslogic|lsilogic|legacyESX> -jar raw2vmdk.jar <raw image> 
<vmdk outfile>

Example:

zapotek@zaptop:~/raw2vmdk-0.1.jar$ java -jar raw2vmdk.jar 
"/media/disk-2/VM/FreeBSD 8.0 Minimal/freebsd8min.img" 
/home/zapotek/freebsd8min.vmdk
raw2vmdk 0.1.3.1 [$Rev: 28 $] initiated.
   Author: Zapotek <[email protected]>
   Website: http://www.segfault.gr

Analysing image:
/media/disk-2/VM/FreeBSD 8.0 Minimal/freebsd8min.img [1073741824 bytes]

Number of sectors:      2097152
Number of cylinders:    1023
Heads per track:        16
Sectors per track:      63

Loading VMDK template...
Writing VMDK file to: /home/zapotek/freebsd8min.vmdk
All done.


-Brian





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