Vmware workstation converter vhd

Click Next on each step to continue. Select a name and guest OS. In this example, the VM name is Winconverted. Select storage. Select the datastore in which to store the VM files. The name of the datastore used in this example is SSD2.

Customize settings. This step is the most important in our case. Delete the virtual disk that was created by default with the new VM. As you may recall, your converted virtual disk consists of two files. Both files copied to the ESXi datastore are present.

In the current example, you can see that the current size of the virtual disk is 9. After adding the converted VMDK virtual disk, you can see the inactive field where the 9-GB size the current size of the GB virtual disk is displayed. Ready to complete. On this step, you can check your settings. If everything is correct, hit Finish to create a new VM.

Choose the I will install the operating system later option from the guest OS installation page and click on the Next button. Now, on the next to leave all settings as default and then click on the next. Now on the next page which is the Network Type page choose the desired option and click on the Next button.

On the next page leave all settings as default and hit on the Next button. Now next page is of the selection of the disk page i. After clicking on the Next button you will see a Browse button and after clicking on it you will need to search the previously configured VHD file. Choose the VHD file and Open it.

After this, the navigation dialogue closes and you returned on the existing page. WinImage will start the virtual hard disk image conversion process, which may take a while to complete, depending on the size of the virtual hard disk.

Once the VMDK virtual disk image is created, the VMDK can be added to existing virtual machine as additional hard disk drive to access its content, or used as existing virtual disk when creating new virtual machine.

You should choose the later for more flexibility if you foresee there will extensive usage on the disk image. Browse to the folder location which the output disk image to be saved and enter a file name no extension required. Also, the user interface of the tool is very simple; even non-technical users can use it. It is embedded with some excellent features, such as:. I was worried about my corrupted VMDK files.

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