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After downloading TrixBox 2.6 VMWare image and trying to get it to work VMWare Server 1.0.x and found that it was created for VMWare Workstation 6, VMWare Player or VMWare Server 2 Beta. I decided to convert the VMWare image for ver 1.0.x use.

The process I did.

Downloaded the TrixBox VMWare image

Grabbed QEmuInstall(do a google search and download it) if you are Windows user, if not install the qemu package on your linux box.

Convert the image from VMWare format to a raw hard disk image.
qemu-img convert trixbox-ce.vmdk -O raw trixbox-raw.hdd

Convert the raw hard disk image back to VMWare format.

qemu-img convert -f raw trixbox-raw.hdd -O vmdk trixbox-ce.vmdk

Then I created a new VMWare Session using an existing disk the trixbox-ce.vmdk

Please note this process requires that you have about 10GB or so of disk space free.

I might share a re-pack of the VMWare image for VMWare Server ver 1.0.x if people are interested. Just leave a comment and let me know what you think.