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I downloaded a Kali Linux ISO VMware image thinking that it would be able to run in Virtualbox as well. However, this only seems to be the case with .vmdk files, and my image is a .vm.tar.gz file. Virtualbox does not recognize it as a valid ISO file, and I am not sure how to convert it. The entire thing is

kali-linux-1.0-i386-gnome-vm.tar.gz

The goal is to be able to run this in a Virtualbox, is there any way to convert this from VMware to Virtualbox?

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Actually, VirtualBox does support the VMDK container format used by VMWare, but the file you have is not a VMDK file, but is probably a compressed virtual machine file. Unpack the file using an archive manager that supports .tar.gz such as 7-zip (some instructions here) and then add that using Machine→Add (Ctrl+A) from VirtualBox.