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You need to load the config file(vmx) for the VM, vmdk is the virtual disk file, it cant be loaded without the vmx file<br />
Check out the following sites<br />
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<a href="http://www.easyvmx.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.easyvmx.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.virtualization.info/2005/12/vmx-builder-for-vmware-player.html" rel="ugc">http://www.virtualization.info/2005/12/vmx-builder-for-vmware-player.html</a><br />

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You need to load the config file(vmx) for the VM, vmdk is the virtual disk file, it cant be loaded without the vmx file
Check out the following sites

http://www.easyvmx.com/ [http://www.easyvmx.com/]
http://www.virtualization.info/2005/12/vmx-builder-for-vmware-player.html [http://www.virtualization.info/2005/12/vmx-builder-for-vmware-player.html]


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I managed to make vmxbuilder work (had to download some library because of some TABCTL32.OCX missing and then reinstall :), but it did not want to read my VMDK-file. I am trying now to convert the vdi-file again using --format VDMK (instead of --version ESX). I will lett you know!<br />
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Hans Kristian<br />

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I managed to make vmxbuilder work (had to download some library because of some TABCTL32.OCX missing and then reinstall :), but it did not want to read my VMDK-file. I am trying now to convert the vdi-file again using --format VDMK (instead of --version ESX). I will lett you know!
 
Hans Kristian


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Hi,<br />
I had a VirtualBox-vdi-file, but a user wanted to use vmWare. I found that I could convert the vdi file with VBoxManage. I used:<br />
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VBoxManage convertfromraw Filenamefrom filenameto --version ESX<br />
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From this I got a VMDK-file. What do I do with it to use it with vmWare Player?
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Hi,
I had a VirtualBox-vdi-file, but a user wanted to use vmWare. I found that I could convert the vdi file with VBoxManage. I used:

VBoxManage convertfromraw Filenamefrom filenameto --version ESX

From this I got a VMDK-file. What do I do with it to use it with vmWare Player?

Convert FROM VirtualBox TO vmWare

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.