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?

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  1. links for 2011-04-20 « LAN b4 Time says:
    April 21, 2011 at 11:20 am

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  2. Brent says:
    May 24, 2011 at 10:27 am

    One more option is… sometimes all we need!!!

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  3. Samuel says:
    July 16, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    Thanks…

    I was looking for a easy step by step process. Save me so much time…

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  4. danilo says:
    February 24, 2012 at 1:37 pm

    Gracias!!!

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  5. manny says:
    March 3, 2012 at 11:34 am

    Thanks for sharing this.

    Mine kept failing and had to google to find out that if i have spaces in directory name and is on another drive say X:\VM 2012\source.vhd, then i have to use “X:\Vm 2012\source.vhd” and same for target.

    so it should be:
    VBoxManage clonehd “X:\Dir Name\source.vhd” “X:\Dir Name\target.vdi” –format vdi

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  6. Daniel says:
    April 13, 2012 at 12:44 am

    Hello, Just use in Oracle VirtualBox 4.1.12 r77245, File, CTRL+D, Copy and that’s all. Work perfectly. Regards. daniel

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  7. FaR says:
    November 5, 2012 at 8:48 am

    Hi!
    Thats is exactly what I need !
    How to do all THAT you write here but in WINDOWS ?
    …

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  8. Jay says:
    November 29, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    Worked like a charm! Thanks so much for sharing.

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  9. majmb says:
    February 17, 2013 at 12:37 am

    Very helpful – thx a lot!

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