If you’ve got anything depended on the old drives the easiest was is to create a symbolic link to the new location Mapped folders are now in /mnt/hgfs whereas VirtualBox they were in /media/sf_Downloads You need to add shared folders by editing through the VMWare GUI: Would you like to enable VMware automatic kernel modulesĬTRL+ALT to exit the VMPlayer if focus is grabbed. Next install the dkms package to ensure that vmware kernel modules are automatically rebuilt when a new kernel is released. Use VMPlayers menu option to install the VMWare Tools Installer
choose the latest VBoxGuestAdditions folder
press the Tab key to autocomplete the VBox folder name Uninstall the old virtualbox guest additions: vmdk file) you converted and stored in ~/Documents over the created (empty). The key part here is to create the VM with a single hard-drive and the size must be slightly larger than the size in VirtualBoxĢ) Select: “I will install the operating system later” followed by Nextģ) Select Guest Operating OS (for example Linux) and select the version you have (for example “Ubuntu 64bit”)Ĥ) Click “Next” and give a the virtual machine a name, for example “ubuntu”.ĥ) Click “Next” set the maximum disk size to the size (or larger) of your actual virtual machine (important!)Ħ) Click “Store virtual disk as a single file (important!)ħ) Click “Next”and click “Finish”. Next create a blank Virtual Machine in VMWare Player. VBoxManage clonehd "ubuntu.vdi" ~/Documents/ubuntu.vmdk -format vmdk -variant standard I’m going to store the converted VM in ~/Documents Next take the name of the VDI – in my case ubuntu.vdi and convert it. VirtualBox has a nice command line that does just this.įirst change to the folder containing the VDI file of your VM: Next you need to convert the VDI format to VMWare’s vmdk format. So use the VirtualBox GUI to delete all snapshots. The first hint to perform the conversion is to remove all snapshots. VirtualBox stores its VM’s in your home-folder in ~/VirtualBox. Continuing my journey, here are a few hints and tips I picked up along the way on how to convert an existing VirtualBox virtual machine to VMWare’s vmdk format.