[[!comment format=mdwn username="picca" avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/7e61c80d28018b10d31f6db7dddb864c" subject="comment 3" date="2017-08-22T07:36:06Z" content=""" It seems that we do not need virtualbox in order to generate a vmdk image I installed *qemu-utils* and then # qemu-img convert -O vmdk soleil.img soleil.vmdk # file soleil.vmdk soleil.vmdk: VMware4 disk image what about using this solution instead of the virtualbox one ? Cheers """]]