Convert Vmware Image to Oracle Virtualbox Image

Oracle VirtualBox can run VMs created by both VMware Workstation or Server to do this you will need to import vmdk disk files for the VMware Server Virtual Machine into Oracle VirtualBox and then create a Virtual Machine to use the imported disk files.

Steps:

1- Start Oracle Virtual Box

2- Open Virtual Media Manager Menu

3- In the Virtual Media Manager click Add button

4- Choose the vmdk file for the VMware machine and click open

5- Create a new Virtual Machine in Oracle Virtual Box and choose the newly imported vmdk file to be its disk file like step 2 in the previous post
Cloning Virtual Machine in Oracle VirtualBox

Cloning Virtual Machine in Oracle VirtualBox

Cloning virtual machines means duplicating a preinstalled and configured virtual machines very easily without re installing OS and other programs to create multiple similar virtual machines in a very short time.
VMware workstation and VMware Server have options to create a cloned Virtual Machine.
But Oracle VirtualBox cloning is different which involved two steps are:
Step1:Clone the hard disk from an existing virtual machine
Step2:Create a new virtual machine similar to the original one with the cloned Hard disk.

Step1:Clone the hard disk from an existing virtual machine
Use the VBoxManage commands to clone the hard disk as follow
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox> VBoxManage clonehd Solaris_10_u8.vmdk newsolaris.vmdk

where:
Solaris_10_u8.vmdk: is the original Hard Disk will be cloned.
newsolaris.vmdk: is the cloned Hard Disk.

Virtual Media Manager Before Cloning The Hard Disk

Cloning The Hard Disk

Virtual Media Manager After Cloning The Hard Disk

 

Step2:Create a new virtual machine similar to the original one with the cloned Hard disk.
Now,using the Create new virtual machine wizard create a new virtual machine with the same hardware as the source one and add the newly cloned hard disk to this new virtual machine.