VMWare appliances to Parallels

Ever found a VMWare appliance or VM that you wanted to run under parallels?

well Virtualization Daily has an answer:

Convert the image from VMWare format to a raw hard disk image using Qemu.

qemu-img convert appliance-harddrive-name.vmdk -O raw appliance-harddrive-name-raw.hdd

There are some caveats: not all VMDKs can be converted, IDE disk only, single disk images (can't have multiple VMDK files). I've had pretty good fortune with Linux appliances so far (because it had the kernel drivers to load up even though the hardware had changed slightly).

They did some sample parallels appliances: