Mark Whidby wrote: > Sorry if this has been covered before but I couldn't see anything in > the archives or the user manual. My first attempt to port a virtual > machine from one Linux host to another by tarring up the contents of > .VirtualBox and copying the resulting tar file across and untarring it > was successful but are there any gotchas I should be aware of? Is this > the way to do it or are there better ways? Is this supported at all?
If you want to keep all your settings (i.e. not only the contents of guest's hard disks), copying the whole ~/.VirtualBox directory is currently the only way. However, this method will not work if the host platforms are too different (as, say, Linux and Win32 are). Besides that you should keep in mind things mentioned by Alexey and even more: if a machine being copied is in the saved state, restoring it on the target host will not work if the host CPU is way too different from the source's host CPU (say, AMD and Intel). The same applies to online snapshots. -- Dmitry A. Kuminov _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
