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18Oct/090

Virtualbox VDI to VMware VMDK with Qemu script

This script converts your VDI image to a VMDK image if you installed Virtualbox and Qemu on the default location of your Mac OS X.

I placed this script in my home directory as vdi2vmdk.sh but you could place it anywere you want.

The code of vdi2vmdk.sh:

#!/bin/sh
echo "VDI 2 Raw..."
ri="svi2raw.tmp"
if [ -e "$ri" ] 
then
    echo "" 
    rm $ri  
fi
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw -format vdi "$1" "$ri"
echo "Raw to VMDK..."
/Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img convert -O vmdk "$ri" "$2"
rm "$ri"
echo "DONE!"

If you have any questions, please ask...

Tagged as: Bash, Convert, Donation, Harddisk, Image, Linux, Mac OS X, Script, SH, Shell, Terminal, VDI, VirtualBox, Vmdk, VMware, Windows No Comments

18Oct/090

Convert Virtualbox VDI image to VMware VMDK image with Qemu

I wrote this manual for Mac OS X, but it should work also for Linux / Windows.

Download and install Qemu from: http://www.kju-app.org/
The Qemu main site for other systems: http://www.qemu.org/ (like linux / windows)

That should not be so hard, dragging it into your Applications folder

Next start Terminal.app from /Applications/Utilities.

Type the following commands to convert your image, keep in mind that you need to change the paths to your own needs. Else it might (and it will) break

/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw -format vdi "xSOURCE_DISKx.vdi" "tmpz.tmp"
/Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img convert -O vmdk "tmpz.tmp" "xTARGET_DISKx.vmdk"

Next is to add your disk to VMware and you are done

Keep in mind the following things:
- Enough disk space.
- Virtualbox images are in ~/Library/VirtualBox/HardDisks/
- VMware images are in ~/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/
- I could use some donations

If you have any question, just contact me

Tagged as: Convert, Donation, Harddisk, Image, Linux, Mac OS X, Terminal, VDI, VirtualBox, Vmdk, VMware, Windows No Comments

29Aug/092

Converting from VMware (vmdk) to VirtualBox (vdi) on Mac OS X

NOTE: This is for a single file vmdk harddisk image!

First of all, nicely shut down your VMware image and copy (keep a backup) the complete disk to a different location, in my case this will be the directory VMware on my desktop.

You need Qemu and of course Virtualbox, they can be downloaded from http://www.qemu.org/ and http://www.virtualbox.org/

After installing these two applications you just need these commands in Terminal to convert your disk:

/Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img convert xVMDISKx.vmdk raw-file.bin

Now to convert the raw file to a VirtualBox image, run the following:

/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxManage convertdd raw-file.bin xFILENAMEx.vdi

Start Virtualbox and add the image to the Virtual Disk library. After that close Virtualbox again and compact the image with:

/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxManage modifyvdi xFILENAMEx.vdi compact

Hope this will help you out!

Tagged as: Backup, Bin, Convert, Copy, Encode, Image, Mac OS X, Move, RAW, VDI, VirtualBox, Vmdk, VMware 2 Comments

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