IT Professionals - Author(s): Axel Achten (axel8s) http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/ITProfessionals/ en-GB http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Converting a Virtualbox VDI to a VMWare VMDK file http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/ITProfessionals/other/converting-a-virtualbox-vdi-to Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:46:00 +0000 Axel Achten (axel8s) Other 1763@http://blogs.lessthandot.com/ <p>Today I was "gifted" a Virtualbox VDI file with a setup I need to use to give some custom training. I tried Virtualbox once but it was not a success and also this time the machine failed to boot. It kept complaining about some video settings and the boot sequence was interrupted. Time to convert the VDI to a good old VMWare VMDK, but how? The first hit in Google showed me an easy way to do this on a Linux, the second showed a complex one with third party tools on Windows. So here's the easy one on Windows:<br /> First of all you need to have <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads">VirtualBox</a> installed. Now open a command prompt and use the following VboxManage syntax:</p> <div class="codebox"><div class="codeheader">Code: <span>cmd</span></div><div class="codeholder"><div class="cmd" id="cb22796" style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">%program files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage clonehd 'sourcefile'.vdi 'destinationfile'.vmdk --format VMDK<br /><br /></div><div id="cb19887" style="display: none; color: red;"></div></div></div> <p>The result looks like this:</p> <div class="image_block"><a href="http://blogs.lessthandot.com/media/users/axel8s/VDI2VMDK.png?mtime=1340804694"><img alt="" src="http://blogs.lessthandot.com/media/users/axel8s/VDI2VMDK.png?mtime=1340804694" width="676" height="102" /></a></div> <p>Now I can create a new VMWare virtual machine, replace the blank VMDK with the converted VMDK from the VDI file and start working.<br /> Sometimes it's good to see you can still rely on older technology.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/ITProfessionals/other/converting-a-virtualbox-vdi-to">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://lessthandot.com/">LessThanDot</a>.</small></p></div> Today I was "gifted" a Virtualbox VDI file with a setup I need to use to give some custom training. I tried Virtualbox once but it was not a success and also this time the machine failed to boot. It kept complaining about some video settings and the boot sequence was interrupted. Time to convert the VDI to a good old VMWare VMDK, but how? The first hit in Google showed me an easy way to do this on a Linux, the second showed a complex one with third party tools on Windows. So here's the easy one on Windows:
First of all you need to have VirtualBox installed. Now open a command prompt and use the following VboxManage syntax:

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  1. %program files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage clonehd 'sourcefile'.vdi 'destinationfile'.vmdk --format VMDK

The result looks like this:

Now I can create a new VMWare virtual machine, replace the blank VMDK with the converted VMDK from the VDI file and start working.
Sometimes it's good to see you can still rely on older technology.

Original post blogged on LessThanDot.

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