VirtualBox and vmdk vmx files

Question

I ve seen people on the net offering images of a particular Linux setup  and they offer it as either VMDK VMX files or ISO files  Now an ISO seems to work with VirtualBox  because I can tell it to mount a CD DVD drive and use the ISO instead of a physical drive  but the VMDK and VMX files are always listed as being for use with VMWare VirtualBox   So how do I use those files with VirtualBox  When I try the Appliance Import Wizard it tells me it only deals with OVF files     I m using Sun VirtualBox 3 0 4

User · Accepted Answer

VMDK VMX are VMWare file formats but you can use it with VirtualBox    Create a new Virtual Machine and when asks for a hard disk choose  Use an existing hard disk  Click on the  button with folder and green arrow image on the combo box right  which opens Virtual Media Manager  it looks like this  you can open it directly pressing CTRL D on main window or in File   Virtual Media Manager menu     Then you can add the VMDK VMX hard disk image and setup it for your virtual machine

User · Answer

Actually  for the configuration of the machine  just open the  vmx file with a text editor  e g  notepad  gedit  etc     You will be able to see the OS type  memsize  ethernet connectionType  and other settings   Then when you make your machine  just look in the text editor for the corresponding settings   When it asks for the disk  select the  vmdk disk as mentioned above

[virtualization] VirtualBox and vmdk vmx files

Examples related to virtualization

Examples related to virtualbox