HOWTO Convert a windows vmware image to a linux qemu/kvm

This is a good HOWTO for converting windows vmware images to linux Kernel Virtual Machines (KVMs). Note that if you don't have a single monolithic vmdk disk file, you can just run qemu-img over each individual file, converting it to raw, then cat them together in order. I tried this and it worked a treat:

for i in $( ls *.vmdk ); do qemu-img convert -O raw $i ~/$i.dd; done
cat s001.vmdk.dd s002.vmdk.dd s003.vmdk.dd > monolithic_image.dd