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VMWare to Virtual Box Migration

https://wimpress.com/posts/vmware-to-virtualbox-migration/

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Originally posted by jh on 2009-01-20 00:43

I find that a modern qemu-img is a better solution for moving vmdk -> vdi, the main advantage being that is does not utterly corrupt the VM's file system.

e.g.

$ qemu-img convert vm.vmdk -O VDI vm.vdi

then maybe a new UUID

$ VBoxManage internalcommands setvdiuuid vm.vdi

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Originally posted by Martin Wimpress on 2009-01-20 03:15

Thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try.

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Originally posted by Martin on 2009-05-14 18:11

Hi.

Nice tutorial you have there. Except one point. When I read that you successfully migrated a XP VM from VMWare to VirtualBox, I hoped that I could migrate my VM too.

Unfortunatly, you only reinstalled XP. In my case, that is not realy an option. I use my XP VM for hardware and software development with commecrial tools that ar not running on linux. I want to migrate to VirtualBox mainly because of performance issues with VMWare Server. And besides, I don't realy like VMWare Server.

If I reinstall XP, I would have to reinstall all that software (and register it again). That is hardly possible because I got the VMWare Machine from my applicant and do not have full access to the software licences by myself.

I tried to mirgrate by creating a new VB machine using the hard disks of the VMWare machine, but I cannot get the new machine to boot correctly. After the bootloader, I see nothing than a black screen with a single "_".

Do you know any further resources about that issue?

Regards
Martin