Comments on: How To: Convert Virtual Disks (VHD & VMDK)

By: Esteban Herrera

Esteban Herrera — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:34:21 +0000

Josh,

Wen you use a VMDK the default behaivior si the following.
Lets suppuse that you create a VM with a virtual disk of 15GB, in ESX the vmdk is diferent to vmware workstation, the vmdk must have the 15GB space alocated for better performance; when you use workstation you can shrink the disk to the minimum capacity.
what im saying is… if the 15GB Vdisk have only ocuped 5GB after you shrink it that its going to be the size and the vmdk will grow based on the use of it.

hope this help.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:10:07 +0000

I’m trying to convert a VHD file (about 600mb) to a VMDK file, but the resulting file is many GBs big! What’s wrong here?

By: Alexander Rijnbeek

Alexander Rijnbeek — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:13:22 +0000

Hi,

I tried to confert a VMDK to VHD and it seems to work but when i try to start the VHD inside VS2005R2SP1 the image will start but freeze when the grey loading indicator is full.

Any sugestions?

Alexander

By: Ace DDL » Blog Archive » Convert Virtual Disks from VHD to VMDK and vice versa

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:02:21 +0000

[...] virtual machine to the VMware VMDK virtual disk format. Arne Fokkema the Dutch ICT-Freak created a little how to and I translated his document. With the latest version of Winimage (8.10) you can convert the VDH [...]