How-To

Unraid VM Disk Conversion

Jon Eaton

Apr 11, 2023

Unraid (or more accurately qemu) is able to convert disk images from VDI or VMDK to RAW. This is often required when migrating a VM from Virtualbox or VMWare over to Unraid.

The command below will convert the VDI file to the a RAW image:

qemu-img convert -p -f vdi -O raw VirtualBox.vdi Unraid.img

Much the same, the following command does this for VMDK file:

qemu-img convert -p -f vmdk -O raw VMWare.vdi Unraid.img

That's about it really.