Convert virtualbox to vmware

First power off machine in vbox. Then use the “Export Appliance” from the “File” menu.

Change filename to .ovf
Leave checkboxes unchecked (no 0.9 compliance and no mf file)

The disk needs to be cloned as the user running VirtualBox in order to undo thin provisioning. To find out the UUID of the disk, do the following.

VBoxManage list hdds|grep -B3 <iSCSI iqn>

Having found the uuid the actual cloning can commence.

VBoxManage clonehd <uuid> /path/disk.vmdk –format vmdk –variant standard

Copy the resulting .ovf and .vmdk file to somewhere it can be read. Then edit the .ovf file

change <vssd:VirtualSystemType> to vmx-08
Add required=”false” to <Item> for the soundcard

Convert SATA controller to SCSI by changing relevent lines as shown below

Caption: SCSIController0
Description: SCSIController
ElementName: SCSIController0
ResourceSubType: lsilogic
ResourceType: 6

Change hostname if applicable and then run ovftool from commandline

My datastorage is called nasseL1 and network need to be input as it’s defined in VMware.

ovftool x:\path\to\edited.ovf y:\path\to\new.ovf
ovftool -ds=nasseL1 -nw="VLAN 100" x:\path\to\edited.ovf vi://root@esxi:443/

If several nics has been defined, specify –net:”NIC=VLAN xxx” for each nic
Run vmware converter
Select new.ovf as sourcefile