Copying/migrating a VirtualBox image?

[NoOp]

On 03/09/2010 10:13 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> stan 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?
>>
> 
> Did you try File-->Export Appliance?
> 
> I successfully moved an XP image from one 9.10 machine to another that 
> way.  However both were running VirtualBox 3.0.8, I don't know if it 
> would work in your case using different versions.

+1 And it worked for different versions for me w/out issue (older
version to newer version). Note: both were using the PUEL versions, not
the OSE versions.