Convert VMDK VMware to VHD Virtual Server Files

This past weekend I formatted my hard drive and installed Windows 7 Beta on my working laptop. yes this is my working laptop and Windows 7 so far is working like a champ, better than Windows vista, and so far, better than XP. but that will be a topic for another post, for now I will just talk about this cool utility to convert VMDK VMware files to VHD virtual server, or virtual PC files.

I have always used VMware server to create and manage my virtual machines, but this time after cleaning up my computer, I decided to use Virtual Server to manage those machines. the problem with that is that VMware server create the virtual machines with the file extension VMDK and in order to migrate them to virtual server the format needs to be VHD. for that reason I hit Google to find out a way to convert my VMDK files to VHD, and that’s how I learned about Vmd2Vhd tool.

I have never seen such a freaking simple program do such a great job. once you download the file from the link above, unzip it, and run it.

when this small program pop-up, choose the Vmdk file on the Source Vmdk option. then choose the destination of the Vhd file that will be created.

then press the convert button.

that should convert your VMDK files to VHD files. then just install virtual server and start managing those VHD files.