Convert Vdi To Iso Virtualbox

17.12.2020
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I’ve found more and more people are switching to Virtualbox these days and I keep running into the same question. “How can I convert my VMware images to Virtualbox images?” Well, breath easy because it is possible and not very difficult!

  1. Convert Vdi To Iso Virtualbox File
  2. Convert Vmware To Iso
  3. Convert Vdi To Iso Virtualbox Installer
  4. Vmware Mount Vdi
  5. Convert Vdi To Iso Virtualbox Usb

There are two methods that I am aware of that will allow you to use your VMware images on Virtualbox. The first method I’ll outline uses the graphical Virtualbox interface and the second uses the command line. Each method should be equally as stable, it simple depends on your preference.

Method 1

Convert Vdi To Iso Virtualbox File

Iso to vmx
  1. Create a New VM from within VirtualBox Manager and choose 'Use an existing virtual disk file' which points to your newly created VDI file. After it is created open Settings for the VM. Under System Motherboard make sure only Hard Disk and Optical is selected, Optical is at the top of the boot order and 'Enable EFI (special OSes only)' is ticked.
  2. An ISO is a disk image of a CD specifically, and the VMDK is one of a hard drive. There's ways to mount a VMDK directly - vmware discmount comes to mind as does its linux counterpart vmware-mount.pl, or you can convert it to quite a few formats with qemu-img programme. There're also distro specific remastering software like remastersys you can run from your disk image to convert it.
  3. There is a non-recommended and dirty (but easy) way of doing this: Copy your VM partitions bit-to-bit into an.ISO with dd inside the VM's terminal: dd if=/partition of=partition.iso copy to host.
Convert

Start Virtualbox
Inside the Virtualbox Menu click: File > Virtual Media Manager
Click on the “Add” button.
Locate and select the VMware .vmdk file you’d like to convert.
Click Open.
Verify your disk image has been added to the list of images and that the virtual and actual sizes appear accurate.
Click OK
Create a new virtual machine profile, selecting your imported image for the storage.
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Method 2
To use the second method we’ll need an addition command-line tool called qemu.

sudo aptitude install qemu

Convert Vmware To Iso

Qemu-img convert -f vdi -O qcow2 ubuntu.vdi ubuntu.qcow2 Convert vdi to raw img. In case you would like to first create raw uncompressed image of format.img, here is how to do it. VBoxManage clonehd -format RAW ubuntu.vdi ubuntu.img. NOTE: When you do convert a.vdi to a.img, The format.img file is uncompressed vdi and it will be the maximum. Virtuo CD manager disk images (.vdi) might be converted to a common ISO disk images (.iso) with programs like MagicISO, UltraISO or similar. It is also possible that VirtualBox disk images that share the same extension might also be supported in these programs and can be converted to standard ISO, but that seems to be a different type of vdi to iso conversion.

Convert Vdi To Iso Virtualbox Installer

You’ll new be able to convert a .vmdk (VMware image) to a .bin format, which can then be converted to a Virtualbox native .vdi format.

Vmware Mount Vdi

/studio-rack-vst-free-download.html. qemu-img convert /path/to/original.vmdk converted.bin

Convert Vdi To Iso Virtualbox Usb

You’ll then need to use the VBoxManage utility that comes with Virtualbox to convert the .bin to a native .vdi format:

VBoxManage convertdd converted.bin converted.vdi

You can now create your new Virtualbox machine profile, using this new .vdi file as your disk image.

Two methods for converting VMware images to Virtualbox images. Are there any other methods that you can suggest, or have you had better experience with one or the other? Let us know!