Dear,
Thanks. I will put this on my blog.
On 2007年12月18日Tuesday 18:23:30 Dmitry A. Kuminov wrote:
> Magicloud Wang wrote:
> > In my case, my system hdd is full, so I have to move the "VirtualBox"
> > directory to data disks.
> > I just closed VirtualBox, and moved the directory. And vbox could not
> > find anything. I registered the VDIs in new directory. Then I registered
> > the machine.xml, it told me something wrong with vdi (which reminds me
> > the horrible vbox error messages....). I removed the hdd configuration
> > from the xml file, then something wrong with snapshots. I removed these,
> > too. Then it worked, with all my snapshots lost. Luckly, I have backuped
> > all file, so I tried and tried, till I felt tired and just deleted all
> > snapshots.
>
> Yes, this is what I mean when I say that some people have some sort of
> trouble when they do something VBox isn't (yet) designed for. But there
> are at least two ways to move VM data to another location and preserve
> everything:
>
> 1. Move the complete ~/.VirtualBox directory to another hard drive and
> set the VBOX_USER_HOME environment variable to point to the new location
> of the .VirtualBox folder. This should not require any manual
> modification of the settings files because all paths to items stored
> under .VirtualBox are relative by default.
>
> 2. Move a specific VM (i.e. the ~/.VirtualBox/Machines/<VM> directory
> *plus* all hard disks from ~/.VirtualBox/VDI that are attached to that
> VM) to a different location. This will require the following
> modifications in ~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml:
>
> a) Look at the <MachineRegistry> section and correct the "src" attribute
> of the corresponding MachineEntry element so that it points to the new
> location of the moved VM's .xml file.
>
> b) Look at the <DiskRegistry> section and correct paths to hard disks
> ("filePath" attributes of VirtualDiskImage and VMDKImage elements) moved
> from ~/.VirtualBox/VDI so that they point to new locations.
>
> c) Also look at child HardDisk/VirtualDiskImage elements of all
> VirtualDiskImage elements corrected in step b). The "filePath" value of
> these elements should look like "Machines/<VM>/Snapshots/{xxx}.vdi" and
> needs to be corrected so that it points to the new location of the
> Snapshots folder of the VM (which you have moved together with
> everything else in step 2).
>
> Needless to say that both 1 or 2 need to be done when VirtualBox is
> stopped (no active VirtualBox front ends and no running VBoxSVC process).
>
> As I already said in the previous post, the portable VM concept is
> planned. It has a self-encapsulation feature which will let you move VMs
> around. However, I can't say exactly when this feature will be
> available. Definitely not in 1.5.x.
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