Copying/migrating a VirtualBox image?

[Jim Byrnes]

stan wrote:
> I have a production VirtualBox system running on 9.10 with VirtualBox
> 2.1.4_OSE, and I want to migrate one of the images from there to a
> different 9.10 machine. That machine has VirtualBox 3.0.2.
>
> I thought i could just tar up the entire contents of .VirtualBox (given
> that all the instances in it were shut down) and untar the resultant
> tarball on the new machine, being careful to preserver ownerships, and
> permissions.
>
> But, when I do that, and fire up VirtualBox on the new machine, it says it
> needs to convert the images. I let it do that, but now the Virtual machines
> cannot see their hard drives.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

Did you try File-->Export Appliance?

I successfully moved an XP image from one 9.10 machine to another that 
way.  However both were running VirtualBox 3.0.8, I don't know if it 
would work in your case using different versions.

Regards,  Jim