

VBoxManage clonehd Windows2008.vdi Windows2008-tmp.vmdk -format vmdk

This will create new hard drive on which you can work with and you will have the original one just i case something is not working as you expect. You need to proper shutdown the Virtual Machine in VirtualBox and use VBoxManage to clone the hard drive in vmdk format.

vdi Hard Drive from VirtualBox in vmdk format This will create directory in your datastore where we will upload the Hard Drive later on.Ĭlone the. Open your VMware and create Virtual Machine with the parameters you want and remove all the Hard Drives. I’ve done this migrating machines from VirtualBox 4.3 to VMware 6.5, it should also work with other VirtualBox or VMware versions. Attach the Hard Drive and start your Virtual Machine in VMware.Convert using VMware vmkfstools ( this option is missing from tutorials!).vmdk image into VMware datastore using scp or wget Create diskless Virtual Machine in VMware.There are a lot of tutorials out there but this method worked the best for me to migrate Virtual Machines from VirtualBox to VMware ESXi.
