Converting VirtualBox Disk Images (VHD / VDI) to VMware (VMDK)

When migrating virtual machines from Oracle VirtualBox to VMware Workstation, Fusion, or ESXi, virtual disk formats must be converted to VMware’s native format (VMDK). There are two primary methods to accomplish this: using the universal qemu-img utility or VirtualBox’s native VBoxManage CLI tool. Method 1: Using qemu-img (Recommended) qemu-img is a versatile disk management tool capable of converting between raw, qcow2, VMDK, VDI, and VHD/VPC images. Installation On Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install -y qemu-utils On Fedora/RHEL/CentOS: ...

January 12, 2015 · 1 min · 191 words · Ahmad Mahfouz