Copying/migrating a VirtualBox image?

[Liam O'Toole]

On 2010-03-09, stan <stanb at panix.com> 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?
>

Are the drives somewhere other than under the .VirtualBox directory?
Does a sanity check of the various XML virtual machine definitions reveal
anything?

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Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom