Hi,
I try to add VMWare fusion 2.0rc1 image disks into VirtualBox 2.0 (Mac OS X 10.5). I always get the following error: 'Cannot recognize the format of the custom hard disk' '(VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)' 'NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)'. My image disks are with Windows Vista.
I get the same for Parallels Desktop 3.0 images.
Any advice?
Kind regards,
Christophe
Cannot use VMWare fusion image disks with VB 2.0
VMWare fusion 2.0rc1 image disks
Right click or CTRL-Click the diskimage, select show packet-content (?) (in german it's Paketinhalt anzeigen) locate the vmdk-file and then throw it out the packet or copy it holding the alt-key while throwing it out the packet. Select this vmdk-file as existing diskimage in virtualbox.
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I copied the .vmdk file but I get a FATAL No bootable medium found! system halted...
Re: VMWare fusion 2.0rc1 image disks
Thanks, but in fact my winvista.vmdk file is splitted into 16 pieces (from winvista-s001.vmdk to winvista-s016.vmdk) of 2Go each. Is this a pb?tkwm wrote:Right click or CTRL-Click the diskimage, select show packet-content (?) (in german it's Paketinhalt anzeigen) locate the vmdk-file and then throw it out the packet or copy it holding the alt-key while throwing it out the packet. Select this vmdk-file as existing diskimage in virtualbox.
Cheers,
Xtoff
Ooops
Sorry, but this worked for me with W2K. I converted my parallels-hdd-file with vmware-importer and extracted the vmdk-file with the described method. Maybe someone else has further hints.
@xtoff, sounds as if you are using a fat32-formated-disk/partition, and there is the maximal filesize 2GB. Try to repeat the conversion/extraction on a mac-hfs-formated disk/partition.
@gillesb14, as far I remember (but maybe I'm wrong!) you can solve this with changing some of the properties of the virtual-machine. Or your boot.ini points to a wrong partition. To solve this use an image or a real disc that allows you to access your ntfs-formated virtual-disc. You can do this with your windows setup-disc, with an ERD-disc or with a knoppix-linuxlive-disc. You will have to change the virtualmachine-properties so that it starts from the cd or the image of the cd.
My boot.ini says:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
Good luck!
@xtoff, sounds as if you are using a fat32-formated-disk/partition, and there is the maximal filesize 2GB. Try to repeat the conversion/extraction on a mac-hfs-formated disk/partition.
@gillesb14, as far I remember (but maybe I'm wrong!) you can solve this with changing some of the properties of the virtual-machine. Or your boot.ini points to a wrong partition. To solve this use an image or a real disc that allows you to access your ntfs-formated virtual-disc. You can do this with your windows setup-disc, with an ERD-disc or with a knoppix-linuxlive-disc. You will have to change the virtualmachine-properties so that it starts from the cd or the image of the cd.
My boot.ini says:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
Good luck!
Re: VMWare fusion 2.0rc1 image disks
yes, that might be your problem... join them in a single vmdk and try againXtoff wrote:in fact my winvista.vmdk file is splitted into 16 pieces (from winvista-s001.vmdk to winvista-s016.vmdk) of 2Go each. Is this a pb?
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Sorry Phobos, but on this occasion it isn't the problem. Fusion introduced a new format for VMDKs. Same extension; different layout. VBox only supports the older format used by VMserver version 1, etc.
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