Using Virtualbox as base for Hyper-V, VMware

[ofurpaur]

Hi

Currently I am build Basic Ubuntu 22.04 appliance to be used on VMWare(vsphere) and Hyper-V
This as been rather successful just by cloning the VDI and importing to VMWare and Hyper-v

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vboxmanage clonehd base.vdi vmware-base.vmdk -format VMDK
vboxmanage clonehd base.vdi hyperv-vbase.vhd -format VHD

VMWare has been the most problematic, my suspicion is the the main reason is the VMDK image for VMWARE. I can seam to be able to find the VMWARE hardware family created/supported by Virtalbox (search vmware hardwware family) bu my guestimate is ESXi6.5 (vmx-13)

Export to OVA, convert to OVF to update virtualbox-2.2 to vmx-13, and convert back to OVA from VMWARE users.

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vboxmanage export base -o base.ova
ovftool --lax base.ova base.ovf
mv base.ovf old.ovf
cat old.ovf| sed 's/virtualbox-2.2/vmx-13/g' > base.ovf
openssl sha256 base.ovf|sed 's/SHA2-256/SHA256/g' > base.mf
openssl sha256 base-disk1.vmdk |sed 's/SHA2-256/SHA256/g' > base.mf
rm base.ova
ovftool --lax base.ovf base.ova

So my real question is if someone has been preparing VirtualBox image to be distributed to VMWare as appliances.?

[scottgus1]

Are you actually having a problem? Or are you asking for others' experiences?

[fth0]

As an idea, you could start the other way around: First create a VMware VM on the VMware destination host, then export and import it to VirtualBox. This has the advantage of telling you what virtual hardware details are expected by the VMware hypervisor, like for example a SCSI controller for the virtual disk drive. Later on, you can create a new VM on VirtualBox with the expected virtual hardware.