On 7/28/19 8:18 AM, Paul Lockaby wrote: > Hello! Please tell me if I'm in the wrong forum and I'll try somewhere else. > > Using bits and pieces of documentation from around here (thanks Noah > Meyerhans) and other places I've figured out how to create AWS EC2 AMIs for > buster. I'd like to use the same process to create something that I can boot > up with VMWare Fusion so that I have an image for local development that is > pretty identical to what I have on AWS. > > I've successfully converted the "raw" file that debian-cloud-images generates > into a "vmdk" file and it boots but it won't actually start the init process. > It freezes when it finishes loading the kernel.
Hi Paul I am using this script, to convert a raw disk image to VMDK, also generating the appropriate OVF file, so you can directly import in VmWare (tested with VmWare command line tools) https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/import2vbox Main use of it is for importing a raw disk image into virtualbox, but as the generated OVF is somehow standard compliant, this works with VMWare too. Manu
