Wednesday, January 19, 2011

How to Import a VMWare image into Parallels

I spent ages reading around on the web for the best and easiest way to import a VM Ware vm into Parallels. Parallels Transporter is an option, but it requires the guest VM to be running, which may not be useful if it's a downloaded appliance image or whatever.

The answer is frightfully simple (although hard to find).

1. Launch Parallels.
2. File -> Open, and select the VM Ware image.
3. Save.

Done, converting. It'll take a while, this image is big. Let's see how it goes...

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