On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 16:20 -0400, Dutch wrote: > While dumping the gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.general bit bucket, I > heard Joe Leo say: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am new to VirtualBOX... I understand I should be able to run VMware > > images. I just installed vbox and want to be able to run my vmware > > images without having to go and create a VM to do this. I don't see how > > I should do this?
> From the 1.4 User Manual... > > "5.2 VMDK image files" > > "Starting with version 1.4, VirtualBox also supports the popular and > open VMDK container format that is now supported by a large number of > virtualization products. This means you can import your existing VMDK > files by way of the Virtual Disk Manager just like existing VDI images; Some personal observations: 1) It only seems possible to boot from a VMDK if it was created as an IDE disk. This is due to geometry issues. It may be possible to use a SCSI VMDK as a data drive, but I have never tried that to know. This is a possible issue as the default drive type for Linux and NT-based Win VMs is SCSI. This means that the original VM had to have been created with some malice of forethought. It should be possible to convert a SCSI VMDK to an IDE VMDK, but that still leaves the possible issue of having to reconfigure/reinstall the OS on the disk. 2) VMware and VirtualBox present very different sets of hardware within the virtual environment. Depending on the flexibility of the installed OS, this could be a big problem and, again, may require a reinstallation of the OS. In my own experience, I could get a Win98 and an Ubuntu image to boot and run. OTOH, I've never figured out the mojo to boot a Win2K VMDK. Obviously, you will need to remove vmware tools and install the VirtualBox Guest Additions. Of course, in all this, YMMV. -- John Ruschmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
