On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Neal Becker<[email protected]> wrote:
> I managed to mess up something in .VirtualBox (long story).  Fortunately, I
> have a backup on another machine.
>
> I restored my ~/.VirtualBox using rsync, but it doesn't work.  Running
> VirtualBox, it just hangs.  No gui, no error.
> The copy I rsync'd from on another machine I verified will run fine (same
> arch, same Vbox version)
>
> This is VirtualBox-3.0.0_49315_fedora11-1.x86_64
>
> Clearly, there must be some state information in some other place than
> ~/.VirtualBox, but where?
>

I recommend you to rename your ~/.VirtualBox folder to
~/.VirtualBox-backup , and create a new folder with old name
(~/.VirtualBox).

This will force you to re-create your VMs, but it's VERY quick
process, as long as you have virtual hard disks.

-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

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