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=Creating a VirtualBox VM from a Cloud Image= | =Creating a VirtualBox VM from a Cloud Image= | ||
[https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] is a software package which allows you to create and run | [https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] is a software package which allows you to create and run virtual machines on your desktop or laptop. It can be run on many different operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac) and the virtual machines it creates may run one of many different operating systems. | ||
To use a QCOW2 image downloaded from an OpenStack cloud, as shown above, with VirtualBox you will need to convert the image in the qcow2 format to the vmdk format. This can be done with the <code>qemu-img</code> tool. This can be installed with something like | To use a QCOW2 image downloaded from an OpenStack cloud, as shown above, with VirtualBox you will need to convert the image in the qcow2 format to the vmdk format. This can be done with the <code>qemu-img</code> tool. This can be installed with something like | ||