On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 20:03:18 -0500
Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> dijo:

>I think that it was you mentioning that virtual disks are in
>~/.Virtual box directory.

Yes, it was me. At the time my Windows 2000 and Windows XP .vdi files
were in ~/.Virtualbox/VDI. I did not then realize that my Windows 10
stuff was in ~/VirtualBox VMs.

>Regardless, this is no longer the case for many years. I have a feeling
>that it has changed around v5.
>
>These days vBox stores all VM related files under:
>~/VirtualBox\ VMs directory
>Configuration files are in:
>~/.config/Virtual box directory

Yeah, except I still don't have a ~/.config/VirtualBox directory.

>Being annoyed is about the only thing one can do about it beside
>creating a soft link and pretending that nothing has changed.
>
>AFAIK, for a while, vBox respected the old ~/.Virtual box directory
>when it encountered it. Not sure how it behaves these days.

it still works. In the process of fixing this I added the Oracle
VirtualBox PPA and then installed 6.12. It works just fine with only the
~/.VirtualBox folder, wherein all the .vdi files are in the VDI
subfolder. It's now working the way *I* want it to work. I just hate
applications that scatter themselves all over my computer. I'll agree
to let Oracle do that when they buy me a computer. Until then, I paid
for it and I'll use it the way I want to.

>PS: I do not really mind that they changed the dir name, but why
>having a space in the dir name is beyond me. Probably some sort of
>masochism/sadism or little egoistic nut in the Linux/Solaris
>gearbox.

In my opinion it would be better if we could get the command line to
recognize spaces without having to escape them. The rest of the world
did that 25-30 years ago. While we're at it we can ditch ASCII and
embrace Unicode.
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