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VMDK in VirtualBox: Lesson Learned

Submitted by phil on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 20:07

The proof is in the pudding as they say !

Yesterday, the use of a Ubuntu 8.10 VMWare vmdk in VirtualBox worked as a charm. The VirtualBox started, I reconfigured the Xorg using sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions and that was that.

Today, trying to use an existing corporate and custom Windows XP (SP2) VMWare image in VirtualBox, the VirtualBox Virtual Machine started but then stopped before the Windows XP boot up screen. Starting it in Safe Mode only showed that is stopped at the agp40.sys.

Doing some of the usual research, it turns out that for Windows OS based VMWare hard disk images, a couple of advanced VirtualBox settings are recommended:

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Do you want to standardize your Virtual Machine solution?

Submitted by phil on Sat, 01/24/2009 - 19:07

So you have been using Virtual Machines for a while and you now have the dilemma of having some in VMWare, others in Microsoft VirtualPC or VirtualServer and potentially Parallels or other formats.
Especially, if like some of us, you want to have a solution that is as flexible and powerful as VMWare workstation (creating images, snapshots, ....) w/out the license cost while being as simple to configure and run (if so required) as Microsoft VirtualPC. Well, don't despair!

Simply use SUN VirtualBox to use your existing virtual machines' images w/out losing some of the cool features and the ability to create new one Virtual images (unlike VMWare Player):

http://www.virtualbox.org

It natively supports the formats from VMWare (vmdk) and VirtualPC (vhd) including snapshots (as of VirtualBox 2.1.0*):

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Help the US Govt go green on carbon with IT Virtualization

Submitted by phil on Fri, 01/23/2009 - 22:15

Your vote counts!
Help the new US Government go GREEN!

http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/viewIdea.apexp?id=0878000000050J3

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