The part in green letters will be the name of the VMware hard disk to be created you can give it any name you want. Replace the part in red letters by your Virtualbox virtual machine’s file name. Usually the path is C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox.Įxecute the following command at the command prompt: vboxmanage clonehd virtualboxdisk.vdi xpdisk.vmdk -format VMDK -variant standard -type normal -remember Open the command prompt and enter the directory where Virtualbox is installed on your computer. Before starting our project, make sure you do not have any snapshots on your virtual machine if you do, delete them, otherwise you will run into problems.Ĭonverting the Virtualbox Hard Disk into a VMware hard disk In order to transfer our Virtualbox virtual machine to Vmware, we need to convert the Virtualbox hard disk into a VMware hard disk after the conversion is done we will be attaching our converted virtual disk to a newly created VMware virtual machine.
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We are assuming that you have Virtualbox running on Windows and you have a working virtual machine you want to convert and transfer.
Convert virtualbox vm to vmware player how to#
In this tutorial, I cover how to convert a Virtualbox virtual machine to a VMware virtual machine in a few easy steps. I, however, had a number of Virtualbox virtual machines I was not willing to lose, so I decided to convert them. I have always used Virtualbox at home and VMware’s ESXI at work, however, lately I decided to give VMware a try at home after running into a problem booting from a USB drive problem I was not able to resolve. Transferring a virtual machine from Virtualbox to VMware has become a relatively trivial task thanks to Virtualbox.