Copying/migrating a VirtualBox image?

[Fred Roller]

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?
>
>   
I usually just worry about grabbing the .vdi file and simply rebuild the 
machine on the new system paying attention to the configuration.  This 
has worked through multiple rebuilds for me on OSE.

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Fred
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