If you are using VMware Fusion, you can follow the steps on their knowledge base article for removing VMware Tools.įor me, this was as simple as running the following commands in my Ubuntu terminal. Guest additions are installed by hypervisors to include driver support or other vendor integration between the host and the virtual machine. If your virtual machine that you are exporting includes guest additions you will most likely want to remove these before importing the virtual hard disk into a new system. Let's jump back and talk about virtual machine guest additions. Step Two: Remove Guest Additionsīefore we get started with creating the vmdk file. This is the file we need for the next step. Inside this folder you should see the Virtual Disk.vmdk file. Right-click on the appropriate machine and choose Show Package Contents. When you open the folder in Finder you should see all of your virtual machines. I store all of my virtual machines in my ~/Documents/Virtual Machines folder - you may have chosen to store them somewhere else. When you create a new virtual machine you are given the choice where to store the virtual machine. vmdk file for your VMware Fusion virtual machine. Step One: Locate Virtual Disk.vmdkīefore we get to the next step we need to take the time to locate the base. vmdk file and importing this into Virtual Box is much easier. ovf file that the VMware OVF Tool creates but I ran into several issues.Ĭreating a single merged. vmdk file from VMware Fusion that is then attached to a new machine instance in Virtual Box

Based on reading other blogs and websites, exporting a virtual machine from VMware Fusion to Virtual Box can be accomplished into two ways.

Create vmdk from folder