I want to take an existing VMWare virtual machine and run it in VirtualBox 2.2+. Is there any utility to do this?
3 Answers
I don't think there's a utility as such, but you can load vmdk
files in VirtualBox, so you can create a guest with your vmdk
as one disk, a vdi
as another, then boot up a Linux CD and use dd
to copy from one to the other.
I don't know if VirtualBox now has support for vmdk
snapshots. If so, you can use the vmdk
file as is, without converting to vdi
, and sacrifice no functionality.
In your VMWare virtual machine, install Acronis and do a backup. You will get an image file.
Run VirtualBox with the Acronis Recovery iso. Restore from previously created image.
Acronis isn't free though.