Offering VMWare refugees conversion to nearly all formats, with now-offline but required utilities included.
This is offered as a public service. No responsibility will be taken if conversion does not go according to plan.
This repo focuses on converting VMware .vmdk files to .vhdx for use in Hyper-V, but ovftool can convert to/from many VM types, such as VirtualBox.
A Windows 10/11/Server environment is needed to run the mvmc and dsfok utilities.
Qemu is also a great option for both Linux and Windows.
(Credit to https://gist.github.com/rahilwazir/69a750b70348459875cbf40935af02cb)
Your file to convert must be in the same directory as the tool when it runs.
These are only necessary if you need to convert from/to .OVA, .OVF, and .VMX.
Install mvmc_setup.msi
Open Powershell as admin and run:
Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter\MvmcCmdlet.psd1'
Then run:
ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk -SourceLiteralPath d:\scratch\vmx\VM-disk1.vmdk -VhdType DynamicHardDisk -VhdFormat vhdx -destination c:\vm-disk1
ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk : "The entry 1 (or any number) is not a supported disk database entry for the descriptor."
Use dsfok as described below:
Download and extract dsfok tools
Use dsfo.exe "c:\temp\disk2.vmdk" 512 1024 descriptor1.txt to extract the descriptor
Edit the descriptor file in Notepad++: comment out this line as so:
#ddb.toolsInstallType = "4"
(This could be another number. Original Gist author deleted one NULL character from the end to keep the file size of 1024 bytes but wasn't sure if this was needed.)
Use dsfi.exe "c:\temp\disk2.vmdk" 512 1024 descriptor1.txt to inject the descriptor back into the VMDK
Repeat these steps for any other .vmdk
Reissue the ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk command
Place the new .vhdx file in your Hyper-V virtual disk directory
Remember to disable Secure Boot prior to launching the converted VM