On 10/30/2015 12:23 PM, Paul Mullen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:52:16AM -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: >> In the Ubuntu 12.04 installation I have a Windows 7 virtual machine. >> I tried exporting it to the installation on Ubuntu 14.04, but the >> Windows copy protection system doesn't like that it's on a different >> drive. > You should be able to simply copy the disk image from one system to > the other. You'll need to duplicate the settings of the 12.04 VBox > machine on the 14.04 system, though. Make sure everything related to > the VM's hardware is identical (RAM, video card, network interface, > etc.).
I tried that. Win7 complains. I'm assuming it's because of the MS protection system seeing it's on a different drive. > >> Is there some way to tell VirtualBox on my 14 installation to use >> the virtual machine on the 12 installation's drive? > You can modify the storage settings of the VM on the 14.04 system so > that it uses the disk image on the 12.04 drive (assuming you already > have the 12.04 drive mounted somewhere on your 14.04 system). It > might be a good idea to clone the existing VM on the 14.04 system, and > use the resulting duplicate VM with the disk image on the 12.04 drive. That worked. Thanks! -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
