John Ruschmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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. [...] > > > From the 1.4 User Manual... > > > > "5.2 VMDK image files" [...] > 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. >
Oh, I agree, in it's current state VB doesn't handle all VMDK's. I do think it's a good first effort though, that will only get better I'm sure. I've been running about 50/50 on getting VMware appliances to run in VB as downloaded, with 5 Linux distros so far, added to my library. The whole point though, regarding the original question, is that they do run, at least in some instances, and using them is no different that using VDI's, from an initial setup standpoint. Just add the VMDK to the disk manager, the same as using an existing VDI... Dutch _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
