The utility allows converting physical disks or volumes into a variety of formats: VHD/VHDX, VMDK, QCOW, and IMG/RAW. Simply start StarWind V2V Converter on a physical machine and convert it into a virtual one located on a remote server. Data consistency is preserved throughout the migration. An alternate method would be to use the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5 to convert the tib image into a vmdk and then convert that into a vhd using the StarWind V2V converter. Acronis True Image Echo has the capability to convert a disk/partition backup images (.tib) to a virtual disk file (.vmdk,.vhd,.hdd). You will then be able to add the disk to a virtual machine of compatible type (VMware virtual machine (Desktop or ESX format), MS virtual machine or Parallels virtual machine).
- In this post we'll look at how to convert a Hyper-V virtual machine using the VHDX format virtual disk to a VMware Workstation virtual machine using the vmdk format virtual disk. Until Windows 8 I've used VMware Workstation for testing, but with the advent of Windows 8 and the built in Hyper-V I decided to give it a try and have been using.
- This will make the actual transfer of the data over from the physical hard disk to the vmdk file. So now I have the disk in a VMWare format vmdk file.:-) Next step is to let vmware converter try to adapt the Win7 drivers on the virtual disk to the guest hardware environment.
I was wondering if someone could please assist me on the following problem.
I used acronis to create a backup file of my old windows vista pc. I then proceeded to change that backup file from a .tib to .vhd.
I created a new VHD partition and copied the .vhd backup file into this partition.
I then proceeded to do the setup of the machine.
When I try to start the machine it says that Vista is not installed. Does this mean I would still require a Vista iso for this to work? Or am I somewhere going in the wrong direction
Any help will be appreciated.
In a previous post I described how to setup Hyper-V on your Windows 8 desktop. If you decided to install Hyper-V on your Windows 8 desktop, but you have VMware VMs you want to run on this same machine, you'll be unable to import VMDK files into Hyper-V and you'll also be unable to install VMware Workstation on this same computer. Adobe acrobat xi pro 11.0 3 keygen. You'll get this error:
If you had System Center Virtual Machine Manager, we could convert this file with that. But what if you don't have that? What if you have a bunch of VMware VMs you want to convert to Hyper-V that you have customized and don't want to rebuild from scratch? Don't worry, we can get your VMware VMs into Hyper-V.
*Very Important – This process will not work on compressed files. Make sure that the VMDK you are working with is NOT compressed. Right click on the VMDK file > Properties, then click the Advanced button. Make sure that 'Compress contents to save disk space' is NOT checked. If it is, uncheck this and wait for this to finish before proceeding. Further, it is important to remind everyone that you should alwaysbackup any data to another source before modifying or making these types of changes as a safeguard.
Here is what we will need to do:
– You need to convert your VMDK file(s) to a VHD
– Then convert the VHD file to VHDX.
Any help will be appreciated.
In a previous post I described how to setup Hyper-V on your Windows 8 desktop. If you decided to install Hyper-V on your Windows 8 desktop, but you have VMware VMs you want to run on this same machine, you'll be unable to import VMDK files into Hyper-V and you'll also be unable to install VMware Workstation on this same computer. Adobe acrobat xi pro 11.0 3 keygen. You'll get this error:
If you had System Center Virtual Machine Manager, we could convert this file with that. But what if you don't have that? What if you have a bunch of VMware VMs you want to convert to Hyper-V that you have customized and don't want to rebuild from scratch? Don't worry, we can get your VMware VMs into Hyper-V.
*Very Important – This process will not work on compressed files. Make sure that the VMDK you are working with is NOT compressed. Right click on the VMDK file > Properties, then click the Advanced button. Make sure that 'Compress contents to save disk space' is NOT checked. If it is, uncheck this and wait for this to finish before proceeding. Further, it is important to remind everyone that you should alwaysbackup any data to another source before modifying or making these types of changes as a safeguard.
Here is what we will need to do:
– You need to convert your VMDK file(s) to a VHD
– Then convert the VHD file to VHDX.
There will be two scenarios for your VMDK file(s):
– Your VMDK is one single file
– Your VMDK was split into multiple files
In order to proceed with converting your VMDK to VHD format, we need to have your VMDK as one single file. If it is already in a single file, head on down to Convert VMDK to VHDfurther below.
If your VMDK is in multiple files we will need to convert it to one single file first. Head over to VMware's site and download the VMware vSphere 5.0 Virtual Disk Development Kit. We need the vmware-vdiskmanager.
Once downloaded and installed, you will need access vmware-vdiskmanager utility which will be in this folder: C:Program Files (x86)VMwareVMware Virtual Disk Development Kitbin
Launch a command prompt as an Administrator. Navigate to the directory where where vmware-vdiskmanager executable is, then we'll begin the conversion process to a single VMDK.
Here is the format:
How To Convert Tib To Vmware
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe /r 'PATH TO SOURCE' –t 0 'PATH TO DESTINATION' in my example it looks like this:
vmware-vdiskmanager.exe /r 'D:VMVMWareWindowsTEST-SCCM01TEST-SCCM01.vmdk' -t 0 'D:VMVMWareWindowsTEST-SCCM01TEST-SCCM01-SINGLE.vmdk'
The conversion process should begin immediately. Once finished, we'll convert your VMDK in a single file now, to a VHD.
Convert VMDK to VHD
Download the oc torrent. You need to download a VMDK to VHD converter named 2Tware Convert VHD 1.0.3. I picked this up on CNET. Install the software, run it, and enter the source and destination in these fields:
*Note – I have used Vmdk2Vhd in the past; however, I have ran into errors with the application saying the VMDK is invalid. The utility below, has worked on every try thus far for me.
Once that is done you should have the VHD file that you need now. Let's get this working in Hyper-V.
Launch the Hyper-V console, instead of importing a virtual machine, we are going to create a new virtual machine and use an existing disk. Import function only works for Hyper-V VM configuration files.
Select New > Virtual Machine. Enter the name of the VM and place the virtual machine in the same directory as your VHD (you don't HAVE to do that, but it is my recommendation to keep things clean).
Set memory as you would like, select your Network Connection, then on the Connect Virtual Hard Disk, 'select Use and existing virtual hard disk' and point to your VHD file:
Finish out the wizard, then you will see your VM in the list of Hyper-V machines. Connect to the console of your server and power it on. We want to make sure it boots correctly, before upgrading it to a VHDX file.
Success!!!
Now, power off the VM. Once the VM is down, then select Edit Disk…
Then browse to the source VHD file:
Then select Convert:
Then select VHDX:
Then I recommend using Dynamically Expanding, then set the destination of the VHDX, and Finish the wizard.
It will being Editing the virtual disk…
This conversion will take some time to complete, depending on the size of your VHD file. This progress bar will close when completed and will not tell you its done. However, you can confirm by checking the directory you set in the conversion process, and you'll see it worked.
How To Convert Tib To Vmdk
Now edit your VM and change the VHD path by simply adding an 'x' to the end of the Virtual hard disk path, click Apply and OK. Then Power On your VM.
Success again!!!
Now all that remains is to install Hyper-V Guest Additions and uninstall VMware tools. I'm guessing if you've been following this blog to this point, this is probably something you can handle from here You can also delete the old VHD file and VMDK files once you are certain this process is complete and there are no outstanding issues.
We have successfully converted our VMware ESXi 5.0 Virtual Machine to a Windows 8 Hyper-V desktop host by:
Convert Tib To Vhd
– Converting our VMDK into a single file (as necessary)
– Converting our VMDK file to a VHD
– Converting our VHD file to a VHDX
