Table of Contents
Setup with Virtualbox 4.2/4.3
- Copy VM.vbox and VM.vdi to the new location/system
D:\VM>dir m:\vm\ns1 Verzeichnis von m:\vm\ns1 02.07.2014 10:36 <DIR> Logs 02.07.2014 10:36 9.003 ns1.vbox 02.07.2014 10:44 37.985.845.248 ns1.vdi
- Change ns1.vbox file to reflect the changed ns1.vdi location
Change location="D:/VM/ns1/ns1.vdi" to location="M:/VM/ns1/ns1.vdi" <Machine uuid="{1313b9af-1ecd-4c11-8d5e-024c3cd4e04d}" name="NameServer" OSType="Oracle_64" <HardDisk uuid="{857cbab7-aa01-4795-8186-743655d098be}" location="M:/VM/ns1/ns1.vdi" format="VDI" type="Normal"/>
- Remove the VM: Maschine -> Remvoe – but don’t delete the VDI file
- Add a NEW VM: Maschine -> Add and selecting the copied VBox file M:/VM/ns1/ns1.vbox
- Check that new .vdi file is used in the VirtualBox manager: M:\VM\ns1\ns1.vdi
- Verify Config File and VDI File settings
D:\VM> VBoxManage showvminfo ns1 Name: ns1 Groups: / Guest OS: Oracle (64-bit) UUID: c173da78-3e4c-45ea-b140-2e69f783ce10 Config file: M:\VM\NS1\ns1.vbox Snapshot folder: M:\VM\NS1\Snapshots Log folder: M:\VM\NS1\Logs .. IDE (0, 0): Empty SATA (0, 0): M:\VM\NS1\ns1.vdi (UUID: 9a03ce8e-e547-44c0-8a9a-655317db447e)
- Boot the new VM