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Friday, January 07, 2011

Migrate from VMWare Server to VirtualBox

1.Important: From VMWare Server, start your virtual machines and uninstall VMWare toolbox!

2.Locate the main VMDK file you want converted. It's usually a XML file, or a binary
file with a XML header.

3.From the command line, CD to the location of that file. Say the VMWare disk image to convert is Root_Disk.vmdk.

4.Run the following command to convert to VDI:

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage clonehd --format vdi "c:\Virtual Machines\XP\Windows XP Professional.vmdk" "c:\Virtual Machines\XP\WinXP.vdi"

5.That's it! If you're in Linux, the VDI file will be created under ~/.VirtualBox/Harddisks/.

6.Add that to your media manager and create the virtual machine as you normally would.

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