Once upon a time, Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi(a)redhat.com&gt; said: So, I went the manual route. I made a new VM of appropriate size, with a non-thin-provisioned IDE disk, and booted it from a rescue CD. I extracted the vmdk from the ova file, used qemu-img to convert it to raw, and used netcat to dump it over the network into the VM and onto the disk. That of course doesn't do any of the things that should be done to "convert" a VM, but (at least in this case), it appears to have worked "good enough" (the VM boots and gets on the network). Still amused that somebody thinks distributing an image with encrypted filesystems, and the key for that encryption in the initrd, does anything to "secure" their image. Sigh... -- Chris Adams <cma(a)cmadams.net&gt;