CloneVDI: free program that clones and optionally compacts VirtualBox virtual disks

MrBrian · Sep 17, 2011

Features as of CloneVDI v2.05:

Reads VDI,VHD,VMDK,Parallels HDD,RAW files and physical drives, writes VDI.
A simple GUI Interface.
A CLI interface too (for people who like that kind of thing!)
Ability to compact (discard unused blocks from) the clone, with no need to run sdelete/zerofree first.
Ability to enlarge the maximum size of a virtual disk, optionally enlarging the main partition too.
User choice to either keep the old UUID or generate a new one for the clone.
Some useful diagnostics about the source VDI, such as the partition map and the internal fileystem.
Better feedback while cloning: a progress bar and an estimated time to completion.
It seems to be significantly faster than "VBoxManage clonehd".
Open source.

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Note that this tool is not simply a GUI front end for VBoxManage. Instead it uses my own code to read and write VDI files (and other formats), and therefore works in a rather different way, with different features and capabilities.
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A screenshot of the user interface is found at http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-backup-virtualbox-virtual-machine-vdi/. CloneVDI clones VirtualBox virtual disks, not an entire virtual machine.

Make sure that checkbox "Compact drive while copying" is checked if you want to compact a virtual disk. You may get somewhat better compaction if you defragment the virtual disk in the guest operating system before compacting with CloneVDI.

Download and forum for CloneVDI is found at http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22422.

I've used v2.05 to compact several virtual disks with no problems .

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