To convert VmWare appliances to VirtualBox you can use this command :
VBoxManage clonehd clone.vmdk ./clone.vdi -format VDI
Once you have the VDI file, you can create a new VM on virtual box and attach the disk to boot it.
Fix a “E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found.” error
Following is an error encountered on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS $ sudo apt-get update E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found. This can be easily fixed by installing apt-transport-https as follows. sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
