[ubuntu-za] Updating to Intrepid

[Bill Cairns]

Thanks James - there is indeed a .VirtualBox folder which has a VDI folder
which seems to contain XP. As you say, there are a number of other folders
around:

.VirtualBox/VDI/VirtualBox.vdi.renamed (which I suspect is one of mine that
I have forgotten!
.VirtualBox/Machines which seems to have info wrt the Windows virtual
machine

and then what looks like some more configuration files.

So - if I create a new home folder with all that good stuff in it and have
upgraded the Ubuntu stuff, would it be enough to just re-install VirtualBox?
Or am I being over-simplistic?


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:07 PM, James Cuénod <j3frea at gmail.com> wrote:

> Your vitualbox "drive" is probably in your home folder in ~/.VirtualBox
> Just check, it'll be a ".vdi" file  - I'm pretty sure that securing vdi
> file will save your virtual machine (although there seem to be some
> associated xml files as well).
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Vijay Makanjee <vijay at ergo.co.za> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I found that this was a good way to do this.
>>
>> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
>>
>> useful site.
>>
>> Not sure about the other thing
>>
>> Vijay
>>
>> Vijay Makanjee
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>>
>>
>> Bill Cairns wrote:
>> > This is slightly off topic to the other thread so I decided to start a
>> > new one.
>> >
>> > Last time I did a completely new install - the time before I did an
>> > upgrade. Both worked well and I wouldn't mind going either way except
>> > that I now hove so much other stuff installed that I would have to do
>> > all over again.
>> >
>> > But my question involves partitioning the drives: I have read on this
>> > and other forums (fora?) that the smart thing to do is to have one's
>> > home directory on a separate partition to remove the necessity of saving
>> > and reloading it every time. Is there a way of moving the home directory
>> > to a separate partition 'on the run' so to speak? Could someone point me
>> > to a good tutorial on-line?
>> >
>> > I am running VirtualBox under Ubuntu and XP as a virtual machine there.
>> > I share my whole home directory with XP as a shared folder - works well.
>> > But I am not quite sure where that windows stuff is. Is it hiding in my
>> > home folder somewhere? How could I set it up to allow me to upgrade
>> > Ubuntu without having to re-install Windows. (I don't want to have to go
>> > through that again!)
>> >
>> > Any other suggestions about good ways to do installs to make updates
>> > even easier?
>> >
>> > (I would qute happily stick with Hardy on my main machine except that
>> > Intrepid definitely does fix the sound problems that I have had here).
>> >
>> > Bill
>> >
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