Convert raw disk file or physical disk to vmdk with qemu:

Note: you will need Qemu already installed on Linux for this to work.

Command to convert raw disk image (such as raw, img, bin, iso, dd, etc.) to a vmdk file:
qemu-img convert -O vmdk imagefile.img vmdkname.vmdk

Command to convert physical disk to vmdk (Linux only):
qemu-img convert -O vmdk /dev/sda vmdkname.vmdk
*Replace sda with path of entire drive.

Source | Date: June 1st, 2021

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