On 1/19/21 5:20 PM, TomasK wrote:
On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 15:13 -0800, Dick Steffens wrote:
I have a virtual machine I want to copy to another machine. The
original
is on my 18.04 Xubuntu machine (ENU-2) and I want to copy it to my
Ubuntu 20.04 machine (ENU-1). VirtualBox on ENU-2 is version 6.1.16
r140961(Qt5.6.5) Copyright 2020 Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates.
And VirtualBox on ENU-1 is 6.1.16_Ubuntu r140961
(c) 2004-2021 Oracle Corporation (Qt5.12.8)
Following the directions at:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/588426/how-to-export-and-import-
virtualbox-vm-images
I select the VM to export in the export appliance and click next.
The
next screen does not match what I have. It does ask me to select the
format, set to Open Virtualization Format 1.0, and also lets me
enter
the output file path and name. Mine also offers to set a MAC Address
Policy, with "Include only NAT network adapter MAC addresses" set.
The
other options are "Strip all network adapter MAC addresses" or
"Include
all network adapter MAC addresses". I leave that set to the only NAT
choice. There is an checked box on the instructions page that says
"Write Manifest file". I leave that checked. My page has that, and
another box called "Include ISO image files" which I leave unchecked.
When I click Next I get a VirtualBox Error:
--------------------------------------
Failed to prepare the export of the appliance .
Callee RC: NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004)
--------------------------------------
I searched with DDG. All references to that error are from many years
ago.
Any ideas what to look for here?
Thanks.
If your VM is Win7 or Win10 - I would be careful with exporting it/them
to appliance and importing them elsewhere.
I create two virtual machines. One is Win7. I already know that I can't
import it, and I have two separate licenses, and always do a fresh
install for that. I have only two tasks for it. One is a transcription
playback program. There used to be one for Linux, but the fellow stopped
supporting it. Also, it has some Dolby built in and that makes a
difference on some difficult recordings. The other task I use it for is
logging in to my Comcast TV schedule. I rarely watch anything on it.
(That's what the TV is for.) Unfortunately, Comcast won't allow me to
use Linux based Firefox, even though I do use Win7 based Firefox. Sigh.
I've got a Win2K with a bunch of old programs on it for which I don't
have suitable replacements. I've made this switch several times over the
years, so I'm pretty sure it will work -- assuming my copy of VirtualBox
is working correctly.
I have the same setup on my laptop, so I was able to export it from
there. Later on I'll see if I can import it on the Xubuntu 20.04 machine.
The export/import process will change devices uuids - windows might not
like it and de-activate. Changing CPU type (new host) can also result
in windows deactivation, on its own or in combination with the uuids.
Joys of proprietary SW!
Thanks for all the details. Hopefully I won't need to fuss with them.
There are some other oddities on my current desktop (ENU-2 running
Xubuntu 18.04). A number of programs take a long time to load, and some
of them die at odd times. It's not so big a problem that I'm kept from
doing normal activities, but it's slowly getting worse. Once I get ENU-1
running all the stuff I use ENU-2 for now, I will just keep it there as
a standby for a few months. then I'll probably load Xubuntu 20.04 on it.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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