VirtualBox 1.6 and VMWARE images

[rallavagu]

All,

I have installed VirtualBox 1.6 on Fedora9 (RPM install downloaded from virtualbox.org) . As i understand VirtualBox 1.6 is capable of running existing vmware images. However, when i have attempted to open the existing vmware images (vmdk files) the gues OS is not booting. For example, the Solaris images shows the initial grub and subsequently fails to boot.

Thanks

[stefan.becker]

if i remember correct, it must be one vmdk-file, fixed size (not 2 GB splitted, not growable).

[rallavagu]

I have also tried on single vmdk file (merging vmdk files together using vmware utilities) but that did not work either.

[stefan.becker]

http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=4702f982

You can try this image.

[stefan.becker]

http://veedee-eyes.com:82/veedeeeyes/node/42

Or try nexenta.

[rallavagu]

I have downloaded vmware image for Open Solaris. Only "Safe Mode" works from VirtualBox and the main grub option to start Open Solaris does not boot. I have checked the VirtualBox logs but unable to make any sense out of them as to find the problem.

[fuzzmo]

I am also having the same problem - I have a single Vmware image which I am trying to use that has Windows Server 2003 - it starts but then just hangs i.e. it doesn't get into the booting process....

[jruschme]

Silly question, but what disk controller is being used on the VMware image?

I think VMware makes the default for certain OS's (XP included) to be a SCSI controller while I believe that VirtualBox can only deal with a disk image created for an IDE controller (gemoetry issues).

[rallavagu]

The vmware console reports the disk as "IDE0" which i believe is IDE but not SCSI. Is there any other place i should check? I have tried to open both Solaris10 and Win2K images without success.

Thanks