[aklug] Re: convert Vmware img to Vbox img

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:40:05 -0800
Greg Madden <gomadtroll@acsalaska.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:40:21 -0800
> Greg Madden <gomadtroll@acsalaska.net> wrote:
>
> > Okay I thought I would give it a try. I used a howto from:
> > http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/converting-vmware-images-to-virtualbox-a-simple-method/
> >
> > It is never quite that simple, below is my dir for my apache2 web
> > appliance. As you can see there is multiple .vmdk files. The one
> > that works is the flat file. apache2-flat.vmdk > apache2.bin >
> > apache2.vdi
> >
> > I think the flat file is a result of my allocating all disk space
> > instead of selecting the 'grow' option during the build.
> >
> > Next I will try my W2K install :-)
> >
>
> Okay, I tried converting two Windows VM's, no joy.. Windows 2K starts
> up but quickly halts, NT4 says not operating system found, bummer. The
> Linux VM converted just fine... go figure :-) I can vaguely remember
> imaging/boot issues with Windows. I don't think I will save any time
> by converting, best re-install.

I have a nice little thread to myself, hmm nice :-) Never able to just
give up, I found that the problem with W2K was it was trying to load
'agp440.sys' and failing.. Seems like an issue in the windows
world,lots of google hits,enabling both ACPI and IO APIC in Virtualbox
setup, fixed the problem.

So you can convert vm's from Vmware to VirtualBox

-- 
Peace 
Greg Madden
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