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[PCA 2.x] How To Migrate a VMWare Guest Vdisk in VMDK Format To OVM And Deal With VERR_VD_VMDK_INVALID_FORMAT (Doc ID 2143737.1)

Last updated on APRIL 01, 2024

Applies to:

Private Cloud Appliance - Version 2.1.1 and later
Oracle VM - Version 3.2.9 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64

Goal

This document describes a workaround on how to migrate VMWare guest having vdisks in VMDK format to PCA or OVM environment because as of now vbox-img doesn't support the conversion of VMDK to .img format and it gives below error: 

 

Solution

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