Hello All,

I am using vb 3.2.8 on Intel iMac, Snow Leopard.  I am trying to set up some 
scripts to allow our students to import in some pre-made appliances.  The users 
home directory is mounted via nfs and I would like to keep the harddisk files 
in a local directory.  I initially tried the 'VBoxManage import' command to do 
this.  But in all of my attempts it keeps writing the harddisk file to 
~/Library/VirtualBox/HardDisks.

I then tried to do the import in the GUI.  It has a text box that allows me to 
double click in it and change the path.  But it still writes the vmdk to the 
users home tree.

Ideally I would like to script the whole process so a student can sit down, 
open a terminal, and run my script that will either import a new appliance or 
remove one and copy a fresh one.  This is for a OS class and we would like them 
to be able to hack kernel code and settings.  So if they break it really bad it 
will be easy to put in a a fresh one.

The 'VBoxManage import -n' hints that the target path may be changeable but I 
can not get the syntax right I guess.

Does someone have an example or maybe import is the wrong way to do this?

Ideas / Suggestions?

TIA
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Jim Summers
School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma





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