After many attempts I was finally able to get this working. Essentially what I did was download and use the vmware converter to merge the two disks into one. After that I was able to attach the newly created disk to VitrualBox.
The steps involved are very simple:
BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING!
1) MAKE A BACKUP!!! Even if you follow these instruction, you could screw things up, so make a backup. Just shutdown the VM and then make a copy of the directory where VM resides.
2) Uninstall VMware Tools from the VM that you are going to convert. If for some reason you forget this step, you can still uninstall it after getting everything running under VirtualBox by following these steps. Do yourself the favor and just do it now.
NOW THE FUN PART!!!
1) Download and install the VMware Converter. I used 5.0.1 build-875114, just use the latest.
2) Download and install VirtualBox
3) Fire up VMWare convertor:
4) Click on Convert machine
6) Browse to the .vmx
for your VM and click Next
.
7) Give the new VM a name and select the location where you want to put it. Click Next
8) Click Next
on the Options
screen. You shouldn't have to change anything here.
9) Click Finish
on the Summary
screen to begin the conversion.
10) The conversion should start. This will take a LOOONG time so be patient.
11) Hopefully all went well, if it did, you should see that the conversion is completed:
12) Now open up VirtualBox and click New
.
13) Give your VM a name and select what Type
and Version
it is. Click Next
.
14) Select the size of the memory you want to give it. Click Next
.
15) For the Hard Drive
, click Use and existing hard drive file
and select the newly converted .vmdk
file.
16) Now Click Settings
and select the Storage
menu. The issue is that by default VirtualBox will add the drive as an IDE. This won't work and we need as we need to put it on a SCSI controller.
17) Select the IDE controller and the Remove Controller
button.
18) Now click the Add Controller
button and select Add SCSI Controller
19) Click the Add Hard Disk
button.
20) Click Choose existing disk
21) Select your .vmdk
file. Click OK
22) Select the System
menu.
23) Click Enable IO APIC
. Then click OK
24) Congrats!!! Your VM is now confgiured! Click Start
to startup the VM!