Convert virtual machine from vmware.vmdk to virtualbox.vdi
Easiest way to convert virtual machine from vmware.vmdk to virtualbox.vdi is to use these two tools: qemu and vditool
Navigate to you vmware machine which you would like to convert. Then run following command:
qemu-img convert -f vmdk vmware.vmdk -O raw virtualbox.bin
then you need to download vditool from:
http://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/vditool
make vditool executable:
chmod +x vditool
Use vditool to convert virtual images:
./vditool DD virtualbox.bin virtualbox.vdi
In some cases you may get on error:
./vditool: error while loading shared libraries: VBoxDD.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So instead of running vditool use vboxmanager which should be installed all together with virtualbox. Here is a alternative to vditool command:
vboxmanage convertdd virtualbox.bin virtualbox.vdi
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