Converting VMWare .vmdk to Virtualbox .vdi

I was downloading the metasploitable to play around with it and I found that it was the VMWare .vmdk file so I had to convert it into .vdi file to run under the virtualbox. This post will show you how to easily convert the .vmdk file into .vdi file.

Converting the vmware disk file to the virtualbox hdd file is not the difficult task but still many might not be knowing how to do that. In order to convert your .vmdk file to .vdi, you need to type the following command in the terminal by first changing the terminal to the proper directory.


VBoxManage clonehd --format VDI metasploitable.vmdk metasploitable.vdi


Note that you need to have virtualbox installed for this to work. I hope this helps. :)