Head-to-Head Comparison – Parallels and VMware Virtualization on the Mac

Head-to-Head Comparison Between Parallels and VMware Virtualization on the Mac

Convert and Import VM Virtual Disk

This entry is part of Mastering Sun xVM VirtualBox

4 Steps for importing VMware VM or Virtual Appliance into VirtualBox

This entry is part of Mastering Sun xVM VirtualBox

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1. Use Virtual Disk in VMDK format or convert it to VirtualBox native VDI format
2. Create VM definition based on VMware VM defintinons
3. Boot Solaris OS in recovery mode and fix if needed HW and Drivers definitions
4. Uninstall VMware Guest tools, install VirtualBox Guest Additions

VMware VMs and VirtualBox

This entry is part of Mastering Sun xVM VirtualBox

Importing Solaris VMware VM into Virtual Box

This entry is part of Mastering Sun xVM VirtualBox Workshop

Mastering Sun VirtualBox

Here I will try to summarize advanced tips with Sun VirtualBox I learn personally or get from my colleagues, if is not explicitly stated VirtualBox version is 1.6.x release, new is reffed 2.2.x. To be able to demonstrate all VirtualBox 1.6.x/2.2.x features I will use by default “close source” binary version.

• Importing Solaris VMware VM into Virtual Box
• VMware VMs & VirtualBox
• VMware VMs & Virtual Appliances formats
• Inspecting Solaris VMware Virtual Appliance configuration
• VirtualBox 1.6.2 & VMware formats
• 4 Steps for importing VMware VM or Virtual Appliance into VirtualBox
• 1. Convert & Import VM Virtual Disk
• 1. a) Use Virtual Disk in VMDK format directly in VirtualBox
• 1. b) Convert VMware VMDK to VirtualBox native VDI format
• 2. Create VirtualBox VM definition based on VMware VM definition
• 3. Fix HW difference between VMware and VirtualBox VM
• Process FIX For Solaris 10 using Recovery Console
• Process FIX for OpenSolaris 200805 using Live-CD
• Process FIX for OpenSolaris 200811 using Live-CD
• 4. Uninstall VMware Guest tools, install VirtualBox Guest Additions (Use related products docs)
• VirtualBox Virtual HW compatibility improvements
• VirtualBox 2.2 provide VMware Wrk 5.x + ESX compatible devices
• Demonstrating VirtualBox 2.2 providing VMware Wrk 5.x + ESX compatibility
• New VirtualBox 3.0 improve VMware VMDK compaitbility
• Using Solaris iSCSI target in VirtualBox iSCSI Initiator
• Creating iSCSI server side (target) on OpenSolaris
• Using iSCSI server side (target) in VirtualBox

OpenSolaris 2008.05 released, use os200805.iso in Virtual Environments

[http://www.sun.com/launch/ OpenSolaris 2008.05 released] , two distribution Live CD media are available:

os200805.iso	GZIP compression	Primary Languages
os200805g.iso	LZMA compression	All Languages

Install of GZIP based media os200805.iso is reported to be faster in Virtual Environments like xVM, VirtualBOX, Vmware or Paralles.

Note: You can add languages later from pkg.opensolaris.org network repository with pkg install

For example to add Czech language support install these packages:
pkg search -r -s | grep Czech
SUNWgnome-l10nmessages-cs      GNOME software message files for Czech
SUNWlang-cs                    Czech language support
pkg install SUNWlang-cs SUNWgnome-l10nmessages-cs

Hint: You can also try OpenSolaris 2008.05 on many platforms using just released SUN VirtualBox version 1.6