Dear Bruce, On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:52:41 -0700 You wrote:
> VBoxManage clonehd <existing vm name> <new vm name>
>
> Check the User Manual - there are some other features to clonehd.
That is how I clone my VMs now, but this way's inconvenient way for
me. BTW, new VDI always appears in the home directory, regardless of
original VDI location - it's not a clear-to-understand behaviour.
Obviously it's much faster to press menu item "Virtual Machine -> Save
as ..." and make copy of the desired VM. Because VM itself is not only
VDI, but additionally your-vm-name.xml file plus snapshots (if any).
And of course a record in the VirtualBox.xml file. I could write a perl
script (for example) to do all this things - clonning vdi, copying
directory with VM settings and adding record to the VirtualBox.xml.
I just wonder why this feature is not implemented yet in such a great
and brilliant software as VirtualBox.
> I just did this to clone a WinXP vm from a 3.2.8 VBox to test it with
> 4.0 VBox on another system. After you clone the vm, you need to
As I can see VDI format is not changed, so it's not necessary to
make copies - I would always be able to roll-back on VirtualBox 3.2.x.
Thanks VirtualBox team for this great product. I begin use VirtulaBox
4.0.0 - so far so good!
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