need some way to convert QCOW2 to OVF or open QCOW2 on WINDOWS

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Published on 2010-06-08T05:32:19Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 5:42 UTC
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is there a way to convert QCOW2 to OVF? or is there a way to open an QCOW2 on WINDOWS (preferably free/open source)?

the problem is that ubuntu's virtual machine manager was used to create the image and now i'd need to use it on windows (xp).

is there a chance? thnx

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