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1. #How to convert virtualbox vm to vmware how to#
2. #How to convert virtualbox vm to vmware install#
3. #How to convert virtualbox vm to vmware archive#

#How to convert virtualbox vm to vmware install#

VirtualBox and VMware aren’t perfectly compatible, so you’ll probably receive a warning message saying the the file “did not pass OVF specification performance” – but if you click Retry, the virtual machine should import and function properly.Īfter the process completes, you can boot the virtual machine in VMware, uninstall VirtualBox Guest Additions from the Control Panel inside the virtual machine, and install VMware Tools from the virtual machine’s menu. To import the OVA file in VMware, click the Open a Virtual Machine option and browse to your OVA file. This may take some time, depending on the size of your virtual machine’s disk file.

#How to convert virtualbox vm to vmware archive#

VirtualBox will create a nOpen Virtualization Format Archive (OVA file) that VMware can import. Now you can attach your existing Hard Drive Windows2008.vmdk and start your Virtual Machine, if everything is OK you can delete the old Windows2008-tmp.vmdk file.Select the virtual machine you want to export and provide a location for it. Now open the Windows2008.vmdk and change ddb.adapterType = “ide” to ddb.adapterType = “lsilogic” as explained in this VMware Knowledge BaseĪttach the Hard Drive and start your Virtual Machine Vmkfstools -i Windows2008-tmp.vmdk -d thin Windows2008.vmdk

To get the desired files use this commands: cd /vmfs/volumes/volume01/yourmachine Using vmkfstools to clone the clone you will have 2 files Windows2008.vmdk ( meta file that you can open and edit) and Windows2008-flat.vmdk ( the actual data file) vmdk you will see that you are unable to open very large file ( in my case 128GB).

#How to convert virtualbox vm to vmware how to#

If you don’t do this part you will have your Hard Disk as IDE drive and the performance of your machine will be very slow, there is a Official article how to convert IDE to SCSI but it’s missing the part and if you try to open the. Scp Windows2008-tmp.vmdk wget the cloned Hard Drive from your VirtualBox machine, you need to have your cloned Hard Drive into your phpVirtualBox directory on your VirtualBox machine cd /vmfs/volumes/volume01/yourmachine Login into your VirtualBox machine and SCP the file to your VMware machine cd /path/to/virtual/machine/ In vSpere Web Client click on the server you want to enable SSH and go to Configure -> System -> Security Profile and click Edit

You will need to enable SSH on your VMware machine to be able to use SCP to transfer the cloned image from VirtualBox machine to VMware machine or wget it from VirtualBox machine. vmdk image into VMware datastore using scp This will also create a clone of your Hard Drive and you will see the process in the bottom of your phpVirtualBox web interface. If using phpVirtualBox open File -> Virtual Media Manager, highlight the Drive you want to clone and click Copy You will need to have extra space for the cloned images, if you don’t attach some other USB Hard Drive or NFS storage if working in remote data center. VBoxManage clonehd Windows2008.vdi Windows2008-tmp.vmdk -format vmdk This will create new hard drive on which you can work with and you will have the original one just i case something is not working as you expect.

You need to proper shutdown the Virtual Machine in VirtualBox and use VBoxManage to clone the hard drive in vmdk format. vdi Hard Drive from VirtualBox in vmdk format This will create directory in your datastore where we will upload the Hard Drive later on.Ĭlone the. Open your VMware and create Virtual Machine with the parameters you want and remove all the Hard Drives. I’ve done this migrating machines from VirtualBox 4.3 to VMware 6.5, it should also work with other VirtualBox or VMware versions.