Convert OVA to KVM on Mac OS - noobaa/noobaa-core GitHub Wiki

Prereq

  1. Virtual Box
  2. qemu - brew install qemu
  3. NooBaa release's OVA

Steps

  1. deploy the OVA to Virtual Box, don't start the machine
  2. Check the VMDK path in the Machine -> Settings -> Storage. Select the VMDK location.****
  3. run the following command qemu-img convert -O qcow2 "vmdk location/NooBaa-1.4.1-disk1.vmdk" "/NooBaa-1.4.1-disk1.qcow2"

another option (Jacky 25/6/2017)

  1. Don't deploy the OVA - just extract using tar -xvf NooBaa-build.ova
  2. do step 3 with the vmdk file:
  3. qemu-img convert -O qcow2 "vmdk location/NooBaa-build-disk1.vmdk" "target location/NooBaa-build-disk1.qcow2"

Done!