We can download directly from Vmware ( you will need an account, it is free).
To convert VDI to VMDK with qemu-img: $ qemu-img convert input.vdi -O vmdk output.vmdk To convert VDI to VMDK with VboxManage: $ VBoxManage clonehd -format VMDK input.vdi output.vmdk While creating a VM, just choose Use an existing virtual hard drive file option, and use the existing VDI image file. Once you create a VDI-formatted disk image from a VMDK counterpart, you can create a new VM on VirtualBox, and attach the VDI image to the VM. To convert VMDK to VDI with qemu-img: $ qemu-img convert input.vmdk -O vdi output.vdi To convert VMDK to VDI with VboxManage: $ VBoxManage clonehd -format VDI input.vmdk output.vdi Before conversion, make sure to power off the VM whose disk image is being converted. To use qemu-img on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL: $ sudo yum install qemuĪssuming that you have either of these two command-line tools available on your system, I will show how to convert between VirtualBox VDI and VMware VMDK formats, and how to import a converted standalone disk image in a VM. To use qemu-img on Ubuntu or Debian: $ sudo apt-get install qemu-utils
The second Linux tool is qemu-img command which is part of qemu hardware virtualization package. If you already installed VirtualBox on your system, VBoxManage is ready for use right away without installing any other software. The first tool is VBoxManage, which is a command-line utility that comes with VirtualBox. If you want to convert VirtulBox VDI image to VMware VMDK image, or vice versa, there are two command-line utilities available to use. There are several disk image formats used by virtualization software VDI for Oracle VirtualBox, and VMDK for VMware vSphere, to name a few. How to convert between VirtualBox VDI and VMware VMDK