Copying/migrating a VirtualBox image?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Mar 9 19:56:20 UTC 2010


On 03/09/2010 09:52 AM, stan wrote:
...
> 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.

Only other thing that I can think of checking is the uuid's in the .xml
files. I recall sometime back that I had a similar issue - I had to
manually edit the uuid's in the files. Down at the bottom of the file
you should find something like this:

>     </Hardware>
>     <StorageControllers>
>       <StorageController name="IDE Controller" type="PIIX3" PortCount="2">
>         <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="0">
>           <Image uuid="{90b3c9e4-f0d8-44d8-479f-ec8c95a341d0}"/>
>         </AttachedDevice>
>       </StorageController>
>     </StorageControllers>
>   </Machine>








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