neděle 4. srpna 2013

Convert Windows 7 Professional SP1 image from VMWare Workstation 8 to VirtualBox

I tried to  convert Windows 7 Professional SP1 running as guest in VMWare Workstation 8 to Oracle VirtualBox. The suggested scenario is to use ovftool from VMWare distribution to create OVF machine and VMDK disk image.

At the VirtualBox side the scenario suggests to Import appliance. Unfortunatelly the process fails with message "Could not find a storage controller named 'SCSI Controller'."

After some research following steps lead to working Windows guest in VirtualBox based on exported VMWare image.

I created VirtualBox machine from scratch with all settings left with their default values except memory (enlarged to 1GB) and I attached existing VMDK disk image created with ovftool (see above). Windows guest boot failed in BSOD until the disk was attached using SAS controler with LsiLogic type.