Re: [Qemu-devel] Creating a VM from an E01 file

[Cervellone, Adam]

I have now changed the command to qemu-img convert /mnt/ewf1/ewf1 -O vmdk 
/home/sansforensics/Desktop/Item1.vmdk and two things have happened.  1. An 
Item1.vmdk file is now on the desktop.  Terminal just hangs after running the 
command. The cursor is blinking and the shell prompt has not returned.  The 
SIFT Workstation is running in VMware Player 7, should I try exporting the 
newly made vmdk to the windows host and running it in VirtualBox or VMware 
player?

Thank you,
Adam Cervellone

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Maydell [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 10:06 AM
To: Cervellone, Adam
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Creating a VM from an E01 file

On 20 July 2015 at 14:57, Cervellone, Adam <address@hidden> wrote:

Your instructions say:

>> 4.            qemu-img convert /mnt/ewf1/<E01 image file name> -O vmdk
>> <give_a_name>.vmdk


but in your screenshot the command you run is:
 qemu-img convert /mnt/ewf1 -O vmdk /home/sansforensics/Desktop/Item1.vmdk

and you haven't filled in the 'E01 image file name' part.

qemu-img seems to give this slightly unhelpful error message if you pass it a 
directory name rather than a filename for the input file.

thanks
-- PMM