VMware Player is only free for personal non-commercial use. It's not so hard to migrate your VMWare box to VirtualBox, but it you used a SCSI disk in VMWare, you will see the error below when trying to run converted box in VirtualBox:
Could not find a storage controller named 'SCSI Controller'."
The instructions below will guide you through the converting process.
VMWare
- Boot the VM
- Uninstall vmware tools
- Shutdown
- Edit VM settings -> remove the HD
- Edit the_machine.vmdk
- change ddb.adapterType from "buslogic" or "lsilogic" to "ide"
- Edit VM settings -> add an HD, type IDE from existing file the_machine.vmdk
- Boot the VM
- Shutdown
Now you can convert the box from VMWare to Open Virtualization Format.
$ ovftool -o the_machine.vmx the_machine.ovf
Opening VMX source: the_machine.vmx
Opening OVF target: the_machine.ovf
Writing OVF package: the_machine.ovf
Transfer Completed
Completed successfully
VirtualBox
The last step is to import the OFV in VirtualBox and install guest additions.
- File -> import appliance -> the_machine.ovf
- VM settings -> storage -> add attachment -> CD drive
- Boot the VM
- install guest additions from CD
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