

Which will brings you to the Virtual Media Manager. When you’re asked for a hard disk image, select Use existing hard disk and click on the small icon on the right:

Start VirtualBox and create a new virtual machine (according to the OS you expect to live on the VirtualBox image):

On Mac OS X it’s $HOME/Library/VirtualBox/HardDisks/. So in VirtualBox’s world, you first need to create a new virtual machine, before using an existing VirtualBox image.įirst copy your VDI file into VirtualBox’s virtual hard disks repository. The main difference between VMware and VirtualBox is that VMware captures a whole virtual machine in an image, whereas VirtualBox only supports images of a hard disk.
