Migrate VirtualBox to VMWare

[Migiandone]

Hello,
recognizing the serious problems of stability of the latest releases of VirtualBox, our
organization decided to move to vmware, considering no more
reliable platform VirtualBox. What is the best practice
you can suggest. for migration?

thanks

[loukingjr]

Ask VMWare. They would know what is required for their software.

Welcome.

[scottgus1]

The issue with Virtualbox's latest versions is, as best as I've been able to cull from comments: Many programs can inject themselves into other programs to run special code - Antivirus, video drivers, etc. There's some malware that can do this, too. If these programs inject themselves into the Virtualbox host processes the injectors can get higher privileges and permissions than they could have had just running by themselves. This is just a host issue; guest OS's are not affected.

Versions 4.3.14 and up have been trying to stop this security issue and have introduced some instability as a result. The developers are working on it - no reason to abandon ship yet.

The solution if you cannot upgrade past 4.3.12 is - keep your hosts clean. Injecting malware can't inject if they're not present to inject. Allow only trusted programs to install and run on the hosts, keep antivirus and antimalware fresh and don't allow web browsing on critical hosts. I'm staying with Virtualbox on the office hosts I manage.

[Duanehebert]

Hello,
recognizing the serious problems of stability of the latest releases of VirtualBox, our
organization decided to move to vmware, considering no more
reliable platform VirtualBox. What is the best practice
you can suggest. for migration?

thanks

You can export guests in OVF and then VMware can import it.