How to Convert Vmware to .Vdi
VMware and VirtualBox are two competing virtual machine programs. Each provides a virtual hardware environment on a host operating system, letting you run operating systems inside a window on a desktop computer. The operating systems install and run just like they would on real hardware. VMware and VirtualBox both create virtual hard disks for these operating systems to install on, which are files on the host computer's hard drive. Each program uses its own virtual hard drive format; VMware uses VMDK and VirtualBox uses VDI. If you want to run a VMware VMDK disk image in VirtualBox, you'll have to convert it to VDI first using VirtualBox's included command line tools.
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Instructions
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Open a command prompt window by clicking "Start," "All Programs," "Accessories" and "Command Prompt."
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Navigate to the VirtualBox directory on your computer by typing "cd "C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox"" into the command prompt window and pressing "Enter."
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Type "VBoxManage.exe clonehd C:\VMware.vmdk output.vdi --format VDI" into the command prompt window, replacing "C:\VMware.vmdk" with the path to the VMware disk image on your computer, and press "Enter." The command creates a new disk image file with the name "output.vdi" in the VirtualBox folder, your original VMware disk image file is preserved.
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