Vmware converter gho file

Download qemu-img from the official web site bit and bit installers are available to download. VBoxManage is the multiplatform tool that is installed when you install VirtualBox as you recall, VirtualBox is a multiplatform virtualization solution. In the current example, VirtualBox is installed in the default directory. You can add the installation path of VirtualBox to the Path environment variable to avoid going to the VirtualBox installation directory manually each time when you want to run VBoxManage.

The syntax is understandable — you set the destination virtual disk format vmdk and define the source vhdx file and destination vmdk file names. If you use Linux on your machine where VirtualBox is installed, use the identical commands but keep in mind the structure of Linux partitions and directories. The remaining details of how to convert Hyper-V to VMware are explained in this section. Hence, you should pay special attention to the following steps:. The VM name is Winconverted in our example.

Specify a path to the existing VMDK file or browse the file. In this case, the path to the VMDK file is:. If the dialog window appears and suggests that you to convert an existing virtual disk to a newer format, the choice is up to you. Now your VM should boot correctly. A virtual disk of the ESXi format consists of two separate files — a data file. In our example, the WinServerqemu. Use vmkfstools to convert a virtual disk of the Workstation format to a virtual disk of the ESXi format.

In our example, a thin provisioned virtual disk of the ESXi format is the destination virtual disk type. As you can see on the screenshot, the post conversion of VMDK from the Workstation format to the ESXi format with vmkfstools has completed successfully and two new files have been created:. Select creation type. Hit Create a new virtual machine. Click Next on each step to continue. Select a name and guest OS.

In this example, the VM name is Winconverted. Select storage. Select the datastore in which to store the VM files. The name of the datastore used in this example is SSD2. Customize settings. This step is the most important in our case.

Delete the virtual disk that was created by default with the new VM. As you may recall, your converted virtual disk consists of two files. Both files copied to the ESXi datastore are present. In the current example, you can see that the current size of the virtual disk is 9.

After adding the converted VMDK virtual disk, you can see the inactive field where the 9-GB size the current size of the GB virtual disk is displayed. Ready to complete. I can see from the comments people experienced the same error that I did but thought problem was something else.

Basically there is no -vmdk switch, the error message even tells you that!!! In fact if you compare the syntax above the part about converting then it is obvious. I haven't tried creating from vmdk to machine directly yet but seems pretty obvious you need to use -batch instead of -vmdk. Migration User Jul 31, AM. I am pretty new to virtual machines but have been using ghost for some years. I followed the instructions to create a vmdk file from a gho file and it worked first time with no problems.

My question now is how do I use the vmdk file to create a virtual machine that I can use on vmware player 6? Migration User Apr 28, PM. I created my vmdk file, from ghost files of a win 7 operating system, using the command line, without a hitch. I had previously created a vmdk file from a ghost files of an XP operating system, using the same steps, and it loads and works fine in the same player.

Migration User Mar 09, AM. Migration User Jan 03, AM. Good to see that your problem is resolved by yourself. For safer side, I would recommend you to take snapshot of this vm as well as gho image so that if anything goes wrong you should have backup images. It depends on how important is the image for you. Migration User Jan 02, PM. That's what I ended up doing. The image I had was spanned into 4 CD's, the first one was damaged.

Once done that I copied all four. GHO on a single folder and opened the first file with the Ghost Explorer. With Ghost Explorer, what I did was re compile the image into one file. This file, I was unable to do the conversion process covered in this thread, it just continued saying that the image was corrupt. Then, with the Ghost Boot Wizard I generated a new bootable media to install the image over Linux environment.

This worked fine, the bootable recovery was done complete. Just to add more to the case, this was done on a previously created virtual machine and there was an issue at OS boot, I believe because of hardware differences. So, then, with the image loaded in the virtual machine, I booted with a VM compatible recovery image generator and obtained a new image file. This then was converted with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone software to a completely new virtual machine.

And that was it, I got a fully working virtual machin of the original image. Migration User Jan 01, AM. You can try to open the image using Ghost Explorer. If it gives same error message of image corrupt then it is very difficult to retrieve the data. Migration User Dec 29, PM. I have an old backup image created in.

I intend to convert it to use it as a virtual machine, but the conversion process covered here throws me an error saying that my image is corrupt and then abort the operation. Migration User Oct 31, AM. Is it posible to convert a. When I try to do it using the commmand lines mentioned before, after some time it aborts saying that Ghost32 can be used only from Symantec Ghost Console.

The menus and options to create the. Migration User Apr 18, PM. Migration User Apr 25, PM. Migration User Feb 01, PM. Migration User May 06, PM. Migration User Apr 14, AM. Hi, I have an image file created with Ghost I would like to create from this image a virtual disk for VMware.

How can I do it? Details: The original machine has dead and I changed the motherboard in it and done I full reinstall. So I have a. Migration User Sep 09, AM. Migration User Aug 10, PM. Migration User Jul 07, AM. Skip to main content Press Enter. Sign in. Skip auxiliary navigation Press Enter. Skip main navigation Press Enter. Toggle navigation. Search Options. Deployment Solution. Back to Library. Jun 02, PM. Statistics 0 Favorited. Download Document. Please accept the terms of the copyright associated with this attachment before downloading it.

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