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Converting Virtual Box VM to Hyper-V VM (VDI to VHD)

Introduction There are times when you use Virtualbox and for some reason need to convert over to VMWare or Hyper-V (or other). Finding this process on the Internet is tedious, and usually involves using QEMU, an open-source Virtualization product to perform the .raw --> .vmdk step. However, if you are running on Windows, the QEMU Windows port will not perform the conversion without failure (at least on Windows 7!). So with that, I decided to go another route with a handy tool that I've used for years in some variation or another, WinImage. It is a worthwhile app to add to your IT toolbox, and I highly suggest supporting the author. Tools you'll need: . Sun VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org . WinImage (Shareware) - http://www.winimage.com Requirements: Free disk space should be around 2 times the size of the .vdi disk image file size. For the sake of this document, we will use .vmdk as our output file, but the conversion steps are the same when it comes