Error using a VMWare Image

[lorenzosjb]

I am trying to switch form VMWare products because they take to much memory and computer power to VirtualBox.

I know that the vmdk images can be used with VB. When I select the image I get this error in the administrator:

Código Resultado: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Componente: HardDisk
Interface: IHardDisk {62551115-83b8-4d20-925f-79e9d3c00f96}
Receptor: IVirtualBox {3f4ab53a-199b-4526-a91a-93ff62e456b8}

I am using VMware Server Version 2.0.1 Build 156745, but the image was created using Server version 1.

Thanks and Regards,
Lorenzo

[Sasquatch]

It's possible Server2 saved the VMDK in it's new format and thus makes VB fail reading it properly. Does it still work on Server1?

[lorenzosjb]

It's possible Server2 saved the VMDK in it's new format and thus makes VB fail reading it properly. Does it still work on Server1?

To test that I had to uninstall the software and install the old version and that's to much for me.

Is there a image converter? Maybe I can change it to Virtual PC and then available to VB?

Regards,
Lorenzo

[Sasquatch]

You can try and clone the OS to an image with CloneZilla or similar (Acronis TruImage can be used too, but is a commercial version), save the image on your system and restore that image inside a VB VM to a VDI.

[mpack]

Is there a image converter?

You can try my CloneVDI tool. As of a couple of days ago this now has the ability to convert VMDK to VDI. I'm afraid however that I know nothing about VMWare Server or whether there is anything strange about the file format - I guess you can easily find out, and let me know the result in the discussion thread (same link).