Copying/migrating a VirtualBox image?

stan stanb at panix.com
Tue Mar 9 20:39:28 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 11:56:20AM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> 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>

That's probably it. Thanks.
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