To convert macOS Catalina from DMG to ISO file follow the below process which will help you to make the ISO file from DMG file. Create a DMG Disk Image. A word of caution when using qemu-img to convert images for use with VMWare Fusion - Fusion doesn't like disks that aren't sized exactly to. When using Virtual Machines (VM's) from other VMware products, the easiest way to get these VM's into ESX/vSphere is to use VMware's product called vCenter Converter Standalone. VCenter Server does include a version of Converter, however I've had better success in using the standalone version to do VM conversions as it is (typically) a newer version with more features than the one included. How to convert ISO image files File converter procedure using Convert button extracts any read supported format (including iso, udf, dmg, vmdk, vdi, img.) and then re-pack it into any write-supported format (7z, arc, pea, tar, wim, zip.), optionally keeping or discarding original archives. Vice versa is not supported, as PeaZip acts only as a reader / viewer and can't write to those formats. First convert to the DMG to an ISO: dmg2img YOURFILE.dmg YOURFILE.iso Then convert that ISO to VMDK: qemu-img convert -O vmdk YOURFILE.iso YOURFILE.vmdk You can write the VMDK to a physical partition with Paragon Hard Disk Manager Premium and boot your OS.
This technique allows you to convert VMware based VM’s across to the Xen Hypervisor (current version 4.1.3)
This step might be unnessaray for VM’s that don’t utilise sparse based virtual harddrives, but its best just to do it so everyone is at the same step. Find the vmware-vdiskmanager utility included with your VMware install.
On Mac for VMware Fusion this can be found at:
/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vdiskmanager
Or in some other versions
/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager
Change ‘cd’ into the relevant directory once found.
Consolidate the VMDK file
./vmware-vdiskmanager -r vm_to_be_converted.vmdk -t 0 temp.vmdk
Copy the temp VMDK across to the target Xen Hypervisor
scp temp.vmdk root@target_ip:/var/lib/libvirt/images
Once copied, use qumu-img to convert the VMDK file to a RAW format
qemu-img convert temp.vmdk -O raw /var/lib/libvirt/images/temp.img
Create a basic config file for the new VM
cd /etc/xen/new_vm_config
name = “new_vm”
memory = “256”
disk = [ ‘file:/var/lib/libvirt/images/temp.iso,hda,w’, ]
vif = [ ‘bridge=br0’, ]
bootloader=”/usr/bin/pygrub”
vcpus=1
on_reboot = ‘restart’
on_crash = ‘restart’
Boot up the new VM
How To Open Vmdk Vmware
xm create new_vm
Convert Dmg To Vmdk File
You may find network may be unavailable, due to a change in MAC addresses assigned to the VM. Use virsh edit to find the current MAC address assigned to the VM, and update the network interface within the VM accordingly. Then reboot the VM or restart network services in order to re-establish network access.