I was able to successfully create the vmdk file I wanted. The terminal hanging was just taking its time to write the file. It is rather large though, about 85 GB. I've tried using VirtualBox 5.0 for linux and while it recognizes it as a vmdk file it does not select it when I specify it as the virtual hard disk I wish to use.
Thank you for your help! Sincerely, Adam Cervellone -----Original Message----- From: Peter Maydell [mailto:peter.mayd...@linaro.org] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 10:06 AM To: Cervellone, Adam Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: Creating a VM from an E01 file On 20 July 2015 at 14:57, Cervellone, Adam <acervell...@ncdoj.gov> 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