If you configured VMWare to use 2gb filesystem chunks, then you cannot just convert the vm.vmdk file to a raw image, you instead need to convert each chunk, then merge them together.
qemu-img convert -f vmdk /home/e/vm/vm-s001.vmdk -O raw /tmp/vm-001.raw
qemu-img convert -f vmdk /home/e/vm/vm-s002.vmdk -O raw /tmp/vm-002.raw
qemu-img convert -f vmdk /home/e/vm/vm-s003.vmdk -O raw /tmp/vm-003.raw
qemu-img convert -f vmdk /home/e/vm/vm-s004.vmdk -O raw /tmp/vm-004.raw
qemu-img convert -f vmdk /home/e/vm/vm-s005.vmdk -O raw /tmp/vm-005.raw
then,
cat vm-002.raw >> vm-001.raw
cat vm-003.raw >> vm-001.raw
cat vm-004.raw >> vm-001.raw
cat vm-005.raw >> vm-001.raw
If you were successful,
fdisk -l /tmp/vm-001.raw
should produce a partition tableeon:/tmp# fdisk -l vm-001.raw
You must set cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu. Disk vm-001.raw: 0 MB, 0 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System vm-001.raw1 * 1 997 8008371 83 Linux vm-001.raw2 998 1044 377527+ 5 Extended Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(1043, 254, 63) vm-001.raw5 998 1044 377496 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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