virtualbox 4.0 - using earlier VMs?

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 14:49 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> Yes - I reinstalled (not an upgrade) Maverick, installed VB4, copied
> the .VirtualBox machines and harddisk dirs back.

Well! I uninstalled everything, installed VB4.0 again, and tried "Add"
again. And this time it worked.

I hate it when that happens.
 
> > In the past when I moved vmdk's over to a new machine partition without
> > first exporting I recall having to adjust the uuid's in the xml.

The old VM loaded fine, no changes were needed.

>  I do not *want* to have to manually recreate all the VMs and
> attach hard disks to them.

While I have been spared that, it does seem that I will have to "Add"
all my existing VMs back into VB4.0.

> > It means that when I installed virtualbox-4.0 it uninstalled my existing
> > 3.12 and automatically picked up my previous VM's and when I opened Vbox
> > they appeared & run.

This definitely did not happen for me, and I have no idea why not.
However I had a full OS reinstall in there too, maybe that borked
something.
 
Regards, K.

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