Copying/migrating a VirtualBox image?

[stan]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:13:34PM -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 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.
> 
That option does not seem to exist on the production machine. Is it
possiblee this is a VirtualBox 3.x addition?
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