Where did the .vmdk go to?

I recently updated my VMware Fusion on my Mac Book Pro to version 2.0.1 from a beta version of 2.0. I had not bothered until now because I was using VirtualBox and enjoying it. Any way, there was a reason for me updating it. I wanted to create a gold image of Windows XP SP3 for a boot camp we were hosting at our Menlo Park campus and then import it to the instructor ESX server where the Main VirtualCenter server was running. The reason I did not just build direct on the ESX server was because the lab network was not connected to the internet and I wanted to patch the XP image. Anyway, after patching the XP VM I was ready to move it to ESX only to find that the VM disk was not a .vmdk like it use to be. Although I did google the problem, I admit I got bored reading forum posts after the first 3 or 4 and decided that I could resolve this problem myself without having to go searching for it. So my workaround was this:

1) Downgrade the Fusion VM

2)  Power it on

3) Install VMware Converter Starter Edition into the XP VM

4) and basically squirted the XP VM through converter onto the ESX server.

 

 

 

Basically treat the VM as a physical machine and you cannot go wrong. Once it had converted, I powered it on, it installed a few new drivers, rebooted and it came up fine. 

 

-Binwooke 

 

Posted at 04:13PM Dec 19, 2008 by binwooke in Sun  |