Create a qcow2 image of Kali

This tutorial has been inspired by flyingpenguin.

I wanted to try to install a Kali on OpenStack but there was no images available. I do not know if it is only on this OpenStack installation but it  only accepted the upload of qcow2 formated images. I did not find an image with this file format and found a way to do it.

Install the necessary dependencies.

sudo aptitude install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin ubuntu-vm-builder bridge-utils virt-goodies p7zip-full

Get the image

wget http://images.kali.org/Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vbox-amd64.7z

Unarchive the image

7z x Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vbox-amd64.7z

Extract the vmdk from the ova

tar xvf Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vbox-amd64.ova

Create the qcow2 file

qemu-img convert -O qcow2 Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vbox-amd64-disk1.vmdk Kali-Linux-2.0.0-vbox-amd64.qcow2