Copying/migrating a VirtualBox image?

[stan]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 06:51:52PM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> 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?

No ?

> Does a sanity check of the various XML virtual machine definitions reveal
> anything?

Don't know, I had not thought to look. I will, now thatnks.
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