EDV - Ende der Vernunft » VirtualBox http://www.ende-der-vernunft.org Wir ertrinken in Information, aber hungern nach Wissen [John Naisbitt] Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:51:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 EDV - Ende der Vernunfthttp://www.ende-der-vernunft.org/files/joern/edv-banner.jpghttp://www.ende-der-vernunft.org Howto convert from VMware to VirtualBox http://www.ende-der-vernunft.org/2008/03/22/howto-convert-from-vmware-to-virtualbox/ http://www.ende-der-vernunft.org/2008/03/22/howto-convert-from-vmware-to-virtualbox/#comments Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:54:24 +0000 Joern http://www.ende-der-vernunft.org/2008/03/22/howto-convert-from-vmware-to-virtualbox/ In January 2007 a small german software company (now owned by Sun Microsystems) released a quite usable virtualization solution called VirtualBox under the terms of the GPL licence. Since then VirtualBox has made a strong progress and can now compete with commercial solutions from VMware or Parallels with features like seamless mode or booting your guests from iSCSI. This howto is for all those folks looking to move from VMware Server to VirtualBox.

First of all forget about converting since VirtualBox can work with VMWare’s vmdk format. So there is no more dealing with odd stuff like qemu-img, vditool or VBoxManage convertdd. The only reason to convert your virtual machine is if you plan to use snapshots. If you don’t so go ahead:

  • Prepare your virtual machine by removing the vmware tools
  • Locate where your virtual machine is located. Mostly /var/lib/vmware/$VIRTUALMACHINENAME
  • Change the user- and group-id of the virtual machine files from the root to your personal user: 
    waldorf: $ su
waldorf: # chown $USERNAME:$GROUPNAME /var/lib/vmware/$VIRTUALMACHINENAME -R
  • Now start VirtualBox and launch the Virtual Disk Manager via click through File/Virtual Disk Manager and add your virtual machine vmdk file
  • Add a new virtual machine with the former defined virtual disk
  • Start the virtual machine and install VirtualBox guest extensions
  • Done

A few words for migrating Windows XP guest virtual machines: Please read this before you start and if you still have problems to boot try this:

Have fun!

]]> http://www.ende-der-vernunft.org/2008/03/22/howto-convert-from-vmware-to-virtualbox/feed/ 1 Das beste aus beiden Welten http://www.ende-der-vernunft.org/2008/03/21/das-beste-aus-beiden-welten/ http://www.ende-der-vernunft.org/2008/03/21/das-beste-aus-beiden-welten/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:29:15 +0000 Joern http://www.ende-der-vernunft.org/2008/03/21/das-beste-aus-beiden-welten/ Als Geek/Nerd lassen einen bestimmte Dinge nicht mehr los, bis man sie nicht selbst ausprobiert hat. Nachdem ich vom Seamless-Mode von VirtualBox gehört hatte, liess es mir auch keine Ruhe bis mich dann der Desktop anstrahlte:

Ein Linux-Desktop mit, durch VirtualBox, eingeblendeter Windows-Taskbar und Applikationen

Ist zwar noch etwas hakelig beim Umschalten, ich vermute aber das hängt mit Compiz zusammen. Trotzdem kranke Scheisse!

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