Three ideas for converting router img files to virtual machine files

1. The virtual machine installs the img writing tool, then creates a new disk and writes it to this disk to directly get the virtual machine format file

   

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2. Use starwind v2v converter
   to support converting 2 vm/ and Microsoft virtual machine formats,

   

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3. Idea 3, convert img to iso and start directly from iso

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But it doesn’t work like this, you have to mount the physical disk first, and then extract it to make a boot. The file partition in the iso format is probably like this

Contains efi and grub legacy boot

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The following is only a classic guide

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