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On Wednesday 30 December 2009 11:37:01 am Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2009 11:04:28 Andrew Holden wrote: > > Also, in reply to Casey I don't think you have to use the special > > utilities if you are carrying the VM from one physical machine to > > another, I think that may just be used if you wish to duplicate a VM > > to be used on the same physical machine. Again, that's just my own > > experience (I have done both). > > My understanding of it is that the utilities will allow you to move the VM, > including all settings. You can just copy the Virtual hard drive, the vdi > file, and set up an new VM with it. > Me experiences were (unfortunately) not as benign as yours. When I simply copied the entire home/username/.VirtualBox directory to a new system, I got an "unrecognized VM" error of some type (I don't remember the exact message). I was able to restore my copied disks, but had 2 problems: 1. The network does not function in a Debian VM (not sure why yet. "lo" is there but "eth0" is missing) 2. The copy protection on my Windows XP-based commercial CAD system refused to run since it was a different "system". (I've already blistered the vendor in a blog post about their copy protection, and they're sending me a new key.) -- Casey Bralla Chief Nerd in Residence The NerdWorld Organisation http://www.NerdWorld.org ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug