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VMDK Compatibility with VirtualBox

I virtualized my physical machine, using the VMware standalone converter tool.

It runs fine in VMware.

I tried to use it in VirtualBox, but it was not bootable, even though VirtualBox supports vmdk.

Maybe VMware converter preserved the EFI boot of my physical machine? If so, that could be the problem, because VirtualBox does not have good support for EFI. Can I switch my vmdk to BIOS boot? What about using VM Tweaker?

Please share any thoughts on how to make my vmdk work with VirtualBox.

Are there older versions of vmdk, and maybe I need to convert to a legacy version? If so, how?

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