
The internally made VHD image would of course have been of the current disk state regardless of whether the VMDK you previously tried to use was the base or a child in the chain (I suspect the latter, hence it was missing its boot sector etc). Ok, however mostly for future readers: This success proves that you must indeed have been using snapshots in the original VM (rather: differencing disks of any kind), as that is the only thing really fixed by switching to a different imaging technique. How can I get the disk to boot in VirtualBox? I am trying to move from VMware to VirtualBox, but I cannot uninstall VMware until I solve this problem. RW 4192256 FLAT "Windows XP Professional-f003.vmdk" 0 RW 512 FLAT "Windows XP Professional-f002.vmdk" 0 RW 4193792 FLAT "Windows XP Professional-f001.vmdk" 0

The disk is actually 4 GB and is recognised as such in VirtualBox Manager, which I assume is because of the following lines in the. CHS 3 = 2,147,475,456 bytes, assuming that sector size = 512 bytes. I assume that PCHS = physical CHS and LCHS = logical CHS.

That is, I created machines in VirtualBox using the original VMDK files (not clones).
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I have VMware VMs running Linux, Windows Server 20 R2 that I can run in VirtualBox.

The machine was created using VMware Server, and plays fine in VMware Player.
