Comments on: Converting VMware Images to VirtualBox – A Simple Method

By: HowtoMatrix

HowtoMatrix — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:26:36 +0000

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By: netcarver

netcarver — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:26:57 +0000

Hello,

thank you for the post, didn’t know about this. As Virtual Box is now my preferred solution, I’ve been wondering about running VMWare images myself but never got around to trying it.

A little reading of the official change log (http://www.virtualbox.org/manu.....#ChangeLog) seems to indicate that native vmdk image support was added in Version 2.1.0 though bug fixes for this feature are mentioned in later versions including 2.1.2, 2.2.0, 2.2.4, 3.0.0 and 3.0.4

By: moriancumer's status on Tuesday...

moriancumer's status on Tuesday... — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:37:17 +0000

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By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:21:41 +0000

@Alexei – That would be great! Thanks for commenting that!

I took a look, I could not find anything definite, but I think the newer release of VirtualBox (May, 2009 – 2.2.4) supports .vmdk images? (But, I use an older version of VirtualBox).

By: Alexei

Alexei — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:02:27 +0000

Doesn’t current version of VirtualBox support VMWare images out of the box?

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:30:29 +0000

Thanks, I’ll give this a try. Been needing it for the near future.