How To: Convert VirtualPC .vhd hard drives to VirtualBox .vdi hard drives (or vice-versa)

How To: Convert VirtualPC .vhd hard drives to VirtualBox .vdi hard drives (or vice-versa) | r3dux.org

How To: Convert VirtualPC .vhd hard drives to VirtualBox .vdi hard drives (or vice-versa)

r3dux | February 9, 2011

Don’t bother – VirtualBox now natively supports .vhd drives – how handy is that? =D

But if you really wanted to, just use:

VBoxManage clonehd source.vhd target.vdi --format vdi

This will place the .vdi version of your drive in your current users VirtualBox folder, which is: ~/.VirtualBox

Relatedly, to go the other way (.vdi to .vhd) you could use:

VBoxManage clonehd source.vdi target.vhd --format vhd

Note: For this to work, you must not have the drive attached to any virtual machine, so if you already have it connected to a virtual machine, detach it first, mkay?