Easy VMDK Conversions
Tuesday, 16 January 2007 by Michel Roth
This article from SearchServerVirtualization comes an article which discusses the several ways you can convert between different virtual machines formats:

"Moving a virtual hard disk from one virtual environment to another has to be looked at like moving a hard disk from one physical server to another server with different hardware. Even with differences in how the virtual environments present hardware to the virtual machines, with the right preparation beforehand, you should have little trouble cloning a VMware disk to the .vhd format and successfully running the VM on another platform."

Read the article here.

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