vmdk file is not loading

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SebaKE
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vmdk file is not loading

Post by SebaKE »

Dear all,

I try to run a vmdk file on virtualbox. It contains Kali Linux but after pressing the start button it always crashes. I tried several things but not been successful so far. When I run a kali-linux-2021.2-virtualbox-amd64.ova (downloaded from the Kali website) file it works.



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scottgus1
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Re: vmdk file is not loading

Post by scottgus1 »

One thing you could try is to disconnect the disk file from the working Kali VM and attach the other vmdk you have in its place. If the previously-working VM no longer boots, then the vmdk disk you have, or the OS in it, is bad.

Note that if you copied this vmdk directly out of an OVA without going through an import process, it may still be compressed and therefore unusable. You'd need to decompress it, which I'd try by opening the OVA in an zip archive program that can handle tar files (OVA is apparently a renamed tar), then extract the vmdk. I think.... Or just import the OVA.
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