Hi Joachim,
On Friday 14 August 2015 12:19:34 Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 14.08.2015 11:01, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> > Hi Joachim,
> >
> > On Friday 14 August 2015 10:01:53 Joachim Backes wrote:
> >> I'm running VirtualBox-5.0.2 in Fedora22 as host, and I found 2
> >> directories in my homedirectoriy:
> >>
> >> ~/.VirtualBox and
> >> ~/VirtualBox \VMs
> >>
> >> What are the purposes (and differences) of these directories? Can I
> >> remove some of these dirs?
> >
> > better don't :)
> >
> > ~/.VirtualBox contains VirtualBox.xml which contains references to all
> > your VMs. The actual VMs are stored in ~/VirtualBox VMs/ by default but
> > this can also be changed using the global settings. And ~/.VirtualBox
> > is only used if this directory is already there. On a virgin installation,
> > the directory is created at ~/.config/VirtualBox.
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> thank you for explanation. There are still some questions:
>
> 1. What do you mean by an "actual" VM?
> 2. I have two installed VM's, "win7" and "win10".
>
> The string "win7" appears not in "~/VirtualBox VMs", but "win10" several
> times.
> The string "win7" appears several times in "~/.VirtualBox", and the text
> "win10" too.
> The string "win7" appears several times in "~/.config/VirtualBox", but
> "win10" not.
>
> Why that?
>
> (Using the command "grep -ri win7 ..." or "grep -ri win10 ..." in these
> 3 directories)
I don't know your configuration but it's unusual that you have both,
~/.config/VirtualBox and ~/.VirtualBox. The latter shouldn't be used when
the former is present.
To find your VMs, the preferred way is to go to the VirtualBox VM Selector
(the main window where you start the machine from), open the "Machine"
menu and select "show in explorer" ("Zeige im Dateimanager").
You should also compare
~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml with
~/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml
I assume that the latter was changed more recently and contains your
latest changes. Both are XML files which should be easy to read. These
files contain references to your VMs, just open it and you will understand.
Kind regards,
Frank
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