Renaming the VM doesn't rename the disk images.
You can give the disk images a different name when you create them, but the
default is the VM name.
You can rename disk images without renaming VM. You may have to detach &
reattach the image in order to do so.
On Mon Nov 17 2014 at 3:06:44 PM Kenneth Wolcott <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I understand that if somebody is doing snapshots with VirtualBox
> that changing the guest OS name could be difficult and error-prone.
>
> However, if one is not doing snapshots with VirtualBox and wants to
> change the name of the guest OS, if the guest were fully shut down,
> that the renaming done in the General tab of the VirtualBox
> application would also change the name of the *.vdi file and the
> contents of the *.vdi file pertinent to the old host name.
>
> If this cannot be done then...
>
> It would be nice if a warning were provided when changing the guest
> OS name that the rename will not be complete if the rename process is
> not completed by the change of the vm name in the General tab.
>
> If this cannot be done then...
>
> It would be nice if this would be placed in the documentation, that
> the rename process is not complete and here are the steps to finish
> the process manually or here are the possible results if you don't
> finish the renaming process manually.
>
> I'm going to try to do all of this via VBoxManage CLI so that my
> users don't have so much work to do when they want to change the name
> of the guest appliance that I provide for them.
>
> I really do like VirtualBox very much, in spite of some little things
> that bug me like this.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Wolcott
>
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