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Convert vmdk to Virtual Box

Posted by Carlos Villabrille on July 19, 2006
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Some time ago we explained how to convert an .vmdk file to a XEN compatible RAW file, today we are going to review how to convert one .vmdk to a virtualbox compatible .vdi disk. First, create a virtual disk from preallocated to growable as we already saw. I will use one XPSP2 vmware disk. # vmware-vdiskmanager -r XPSP2.vmdk -t 0 hardrive-preallocated.vmdk Convert the file again to a .bin file with the help of quemu like: # qemu-img convert hhardrive-preallocated.vmdk hardrive-raw-file.bin And Read more...

.vmdk file to .raw disk. Xen migration

Posted by Carlos Villabrille on February 12, 2006
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Let's imagine you have a .vmdk file with a virtual machine data inside and you want to migrate this disks, to a Xen source virtual machine... There are other "converters" provided by XEN, but this time we are going to do it manually. First, we can convert a virtual disk from preallocated to growable with this tool from VMware: # vmware-vdiskmanager -r vmware_image.vmdk -t 0 temporary_image.vmdk Install qemu (on Debian apt-get install qemu). You will need the qemu-img disk image manipulation Read more...