{"id":64,"date":"2012-07-31T21:38:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esxi-v34\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2013-02-01T19:56:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T18:56:48","slug":"convert-virtualbox-to-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/wordpress\/vmware\/convert-virtualbox-to-vmware\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert virtualbox to vmware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First power off machine in vbox. Then use the <em>&#8220;Export Appliance&#8221;<\/em> from the <em>&#8220;File&#8221;<\/em> menu.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Change filename to .ovf<br \/>\nLeave checkboxes unchecked (no 0.9 compliance and no mf file)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<pre><code>VBoxManage list hdds|grep -B3 &lt;iSCSI iqn&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Having found the uuid the actual cloning can commence.<\/p>\n<pre><code>VBoxManage clonehd &lt;uuid&gt; \/path\/disk.vmdk \u2013format vmdk \u2013variant standard<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Copy the resulting .ovf and .vmdk file to somewhere it can be read. Then edit the .ovf file<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>change  &lt;vssd:VirtualSystemType&gt; to vmx-08<br \/>\nAdd required=&#8221;false&#8221; to &lt;Item&gt; for the soundcard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Convert SATA controller to SCSI by changing relevent lines as shown below<\/p>\n<pre><code>Caption: SCSIController0\r\nDescription: SCSIController\r\nElementName: SCSIController0\r\nResourceSubType: lsilogic\r\nResourceType: 6<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Change hostname if applicable and then run ovftool from commandline<\/p>\n<p>My datastorage is called nasseL1 and network need to be input as it&#8217;s defined in VMware.<\/p>\n<pre><code><strike>ovftool x:\\path\\to\\edited.ovf y:\\path\\to\\new.ovf<\/strike>\r\novftool -ds=nasseL1 -nw=\"VLAN 100\" x:\\path\\to\\edited.ovf vi:\/\/root@esxi:443\/<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>If several nics has been defined, specify &#8211;net:&#8221;NIC=VLAN xxx&#8221; for each nic<br \/>\n<strike>Run vmware converter<\/strike><br \/>\n<strike>Select new.ovf as sourcefile<\/strike><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First power off machine in vbox. Then use the &#8220;Export Appliance&#8221; from the &#8220;File&#8221; 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 <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"\/wordpress\/vmware\/convert-virtualbox-to-vmware\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[27,15,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.strahlert.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.strahlert.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.strahlert.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.strahlert.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.strahlert.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wp.strahlert.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/wp.strahlert.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.strahlert.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.strahlert.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.strahlert.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}