xgrr.de - the whole not the half | Convert Virtualbox .vdi to VMware .vmdk

xgrr.de - the whole not the half | Convert Virtualbox .vdi to VMware .vmdk

The qemu-img by itself did not create a bootable windows system. Here’s how I got it to work:

Here’s how I did it (using Linux)

1. Get vditool (http://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/vditool, will need VirtualBox installed, plus a few other things like libstdc++-5.0, libuuid, etc.)
2. Get qemu-img (from qemu binary http://bellard.org/qemu/qemu-0.9.1-i386.tar.gz)
3. vditool COPYDD diskname.vdi diskname.dd
4. qemu-img convert -O vmdk diskname.dd diskname.vmdk

Then I was able to boot the image.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/virtualbox/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5