Dutch wrote: > 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 > Thanks to everyone for the comments!
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