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=Creating a VirtualBox VM from a Cloud Image= | =Creating a VirtualBox VM from a Cloud Image= | ||
To use | [https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] is a software package which allows you to create and run VMs on your desktop or laptop. It can be run on many different host operating systems, and supports a wide range of guest 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 | |||
{{Command|sudo apt-get install qemu-img}} | {{Command|sudo apt-get install qemu-img}} | ||
then do the conversion with | then do the conversion with |