VMDK under Virtualbox
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piggo
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VMDK under Virtualbox
Just to be sure I understand it the right way: I can load any VMDK disk on a Virtualbox guest. It just can't read VMware snapshot, then it correctly read THE LAST (and actually active) snapshot load it on the disk. Example: I do have a VMDK disk made of many slices, Virtualbox can correctly read everything on the disk, but the slices related with old snapshot. Am I correct?
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mpack
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Re: VMDK under Virtualbox
No. Snapshots do not work that way. If your first proposition is correct (*) then only the base VMDK would be used, VirtualBox would ignore all data added by the VMware VM since the first VMDK snapshot was taken.
You should use the VMware VM to merge the snapshots into a single VMDK. If you don't want to do that then use something like Disk2VHD from inside the VMWare guest to image the hard drive that way.
(*) I don't use snapshots, so I'm taking your word for it that VMDK snapshots are not supported.
You should use the VMware VM to merge the snapshots into a single VMDK. If you don't want to do that then use something like Disk2VHD from inside the VMWare guest to image the hard drive that way.
(*) I don't use snapshots, so I'm taking your word for it that VMDK snapshots are not supported.