export of VMWARE ESX image on VMWARE WORKSTATION

[MarcoGua]

Hi all,

i would ask you a question: is it possible the export of an image caught on VMWARE ESX 3 (i.e. an image of a LINUX partition with, say, 1 GB RAM and 40 GB hard disk) on a PC with VMWARE WORKSTATION (and, obviously, more RAM and hard disk)?

Thanks in advance

Marco

[avarcher]

Yes.

On the service console of your ESX server run the following command;

vmkfstools -i <source VMDK disk> -d 2gbsparse <destination VMDK disk>

Where the destination is on the service console. Then use SCP (WinSCP for example) to copy the resulting disk files (all with .vmdk extension) to your workstation, then build a new VM with the same hardware as the ESX VM and use the files you just copied as its virtual disk.