thanks -----Original Message----- From: Gregory Nowak [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 9:47 PM To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Register a vm
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 06:24:16PM +0200, mattias wrote: > I have a vm in virtualbox now i have create it on windows > But i paln to reinstall centos on the server > So how to register the vm on the new centos? > Must i have both the xml file and vdi file? > Or are it 2 xml files? Yes, you need guest_name.xml, and guest_name.vdi, where guest_name is the name of the virtual machine. In order to register the machine, you need to have all media detached from the ide/sata/fdd controllers, else virtualbox will fail to register the machine in my experience. Also, previous posts to this list seem to indicate that you can't take an xml file from one host platform, and register it on another (I.E. you won't be able to take the xml file created in windows, and register it on a linux host). So, given all that, your best bet is probably to create a new vm with the same config as the original, and just attach your old vdi file to the new vm. If you do want to try registering the original xml file, you need to create a folder vm_name in your machines folder, and put the xml file in that folder. Once you've done that, you can do VBoxManage registervm machines\vm_name\vm_name.xml On windows, the machines folder is in documents and settings\user\.virtualbox. HTH. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkx+rcEACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyBO+wCfSqEqgKv6IUPfLK3ApGvG0TFy P/kAoMhGu+OZ40DbqJw6EEsf+c/YVhcb =EMGx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
