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Virtualbox VM to VMWare Migration
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To convert Virtualbox VMs to VMware VMs, the state of the art is still not a "simple export and import". | |
Am surprised that it doesn't still work thst way. My VMWare player would quit without even errors. Linux, VMware & Tools ... Still long way to go.. Why can't something fail appropriately ? | |
Some commands need to be typed in the command lines. Here is the procedure that worked for me: | |
From Virtualbox, Export the VM to a folder. It could be saved either in the .OVA or .OVF formats. | |
In the command line, execute : | |
ovftool -tt vmx --lax soureVMfileaname.ova . | |
(the --lax is the key as ovftool keeps on failing on unsupported hardware 'virtualbox-2.2' | |
otherwise as is shown below: ) | |
$ovftool -st=ova -tt=vmx XP_withOffice.ova . | |
Opening OVA source: newXP_withOffice_Origin8.0.ova | |
Opening VMX target: . | |
Error: OVF Package is not supported by target: | |
- Line 25: Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'. | |
Completed with errors | |
and with the --lax option, the transfer is completed with some Warnings. | |
ovftool -st=ova -tt=vmx --lax XP_withOffice.ova . | |
Opening OVA source: XP_withOffice.ova | |
Opening VMX target: . | |
Warning: | |
- Line 25: Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2'. | |
- Line 83: OVF hardware element 'ResourceType' with instance ID '7': No support for the virtual hardware device type '35'. | |
Writing VMX file: ./XP_withOffice.ova/XP_withOffice.vmx | |
Transfer Completed | |
Warning: | |
- No manifest entry found for: 'XP_withOffice.vmdk'. | |
- No manifest file found. | |
Completed successfully | |
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