VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
VirtualBox is a virtual emulator like VMWare workstation. It has many of the features VMWare has, as well as some of its own.
Note:- Before Converting make a backup copy of your vmware image
Solution 1
We are going to use qemu-img tool to this.QEMU disk image utility
First Install qemu qemu-img is included with qemu package using the following command
sudo apt-get install qemu
Convert a VMWare Image to VirtualBox Image
Convert VMWare image called debian.vmdk to /tmp/debian.bin
qemu-img convert debian.vmdk /tmp/debian.bin
Now use VBoxManage to get back image in native format:
VBoxManage convertdd /tmp/debian.bin debian.vdi
Solution 2
VirtualBox can run VMs created by VMware Workstation or Server for this you need to import vmdk files using the following procedure
- Start Virtual Box
- Goto File > Virtual Disk Manager
- Click Add. Locate and select the copied .vmdk file. Click OK.
- Create a New VM as usual using the added vmdk file
- Boot the VM
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