[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="picca"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/7e61c80d28018b10d31f6db7dddb864c"
 subject="comment 3"
 date="2017-08-22T07:36:06Z"
 content="""
It seems that we do not need virtualbox in order to generate a vmdk image

I installed *qemu-utils* and then

    # qemu-img convert -O vmdk soleil.img soleil.vmdk
    # file soleil.vmdk
    soleil.vmdk: VMware4 disk image

what about using this solution instead of the virtualbox one ?

Cheers
"""]]
