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How to easily port VirtualBox machines?

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Mar 15, 20269345 views
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I have used VMware for a long time. VMware saves all the information for one machine in one directory. This means it is easy to zip and copy. Now I switched to VirtualBox. VirtualBox seems to save the machine's information in more than one directory, e.g., a machine I called "Windows 7 Basic" is ap…

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C:\Users\edward\.VirtualBox\HardDrives\Windows 7 Basic.vdi

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You can just copy the files inside the directories you mentioned, that is, the virtual harddisk (.vdi) and the xml-based description of the virtual machine. I did this twice, even cross plattform (a XP geust from an OS X host to a Windows XP host, a…

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