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    Requirements


qemu — brew install qemu


guestfish — https://hub.docker.com/r/curator/guestfish/


Steps

1. Backup VM

Select VM
Export Appliance (⌘ + E)

2. Extract files from .ova file
$ tar -xvf <file.ova>
3. Convert .vmdk to .img
$ qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O raw <file.vmdk> dev-ubuntu18.img
4. Create an .xz image for Docker with guestfish

get into image

$ guestfish -a /root/$PWD/dev-ubuntu18.img --ro

run guestfish

$ ><fs> run

list filesystems

$ ><fs> list-filesystems
/dev/sda1: ext4
/dev/VolGroup/lv_root: ext4
/dev/VolGroup/lv_swap: swap

mount your *_root to /

$ ><fs> mount /dev/VolGroup/lv_root /

create an .xz image

$ ><fs> tar-out / - | xz --best >> /root/<absolute_path_to_current_directory>/dev-ubuntu18.xz

exit

$ ><fs> exit
5. Import image to docker
$ cat dev-ubuntu18.xz | docker import - dev-ubuntu18
6. Run docker image
$ docker run -it -p 8080:80 -v ~/Projets/PlateformeDEV/:/data/apache/base/dev dev-ubuntu18 bash

params
-p: port
-v: mount host folder to docker image <host_folder>:<docker_path_to_mount_to>

7. Run services

apache

$ service apache2 start
if you get this error
mktemp: failed to create directory via template `/var/lock/apache2.XXXXXXXXXX'

do that:
$ mkdir /run/lock
$ service apache2 start
source: https://askubuntu.com/a/308046

mysql

$ service mysql start

memcached

$ service memcached start
8. Commit changes to the docker image

exit bash

$ exit

list docker containers to get the ID

$ docker ps -a

commit changes

$ docker commit <CONTAINER_ID> dev-ubuntu18
9. Add alias to make it simple

add an alias to your (.zshrc|.profile|.bash_profile) file

[...]
# Docker ubuntu virtual machine
alias vm-ubuntu18="docker run -it -p 8080:80 -v ~/Projets/PlateformeDEV/:/data/apache/base/dev dev-ubuntu18 bash"