Archive for October, 2009

Convert Virtualbox disk (.vdi) to VMware disk (.vmdk)

October 22, 2009 at 8:32 am · Filed under Virtualisation

I needed to do this recently and found that the instructions on the net that told me to just use qemu did not work as the hard disk would not boot.

Then I found the following set of commands:

VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw vb.vdi vb.raw && qemu-img convert -O vmdk vb.raw vb.vmdk && rm vb.raw

It worked at treat and I was up and running on VMware 2 Server.

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3773/convert-vdi-to-vmdk-virtualbox-hard-disk-conversion-to-vmware-hard-disk-format

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