On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:25:36 +0200 Freek de Kruijf <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday 03 September 2010 14:04:54 Charles Stroom wrote: > > Before I had 2 snapshots, of which I deleted one by the method > > (uisng the gui) as discussed recently. I would like to clean this > > up by having all my vdi disks in only one place and also merging > > the 2 vdi's together. > > > > How to go about that. In the gui I do not see the base > > ~/vbox/win2k.vdi disk in the main panel, only the one "snapshot > > (2)" with the option to delete that snapshot. Is that what I have > > to do? Would that merge the base disk and move it to > > the .Virtualbox directory or would it stay on ~/vbox? > > The easiest way is to detach that disk from any VM. After that you > can delete the disk in the VirtualBox administration, obviously > without really deleting the file; you will be asked for it. After > that you can move the file to the desired directory and you can give > it any name you want. Next you add the disk in the VirtualBox > administration. After that you can attach the virtual disc at his > original drive in a VM. > > The more advanced method is to edit the xml files in the VirtualBox > administration. Somewhere there is/are (a) pointer(s) to the original > location of the .vdi-file. Change the pointer(s) to the desired > location and move the file to that location. I have done this without > having any snapshot. > > -- > fr.gr. > > Freek de Kruijf > That does not seem to be working. In the XML file, I cannot find a reference to the directory "vbox", where win2k.vdi resides (this is on Linux). Nor even a reference to "win2k.vdi! In the GUI, there is a possibility to change the directory of the snapshots, but not for changing the main win2k.vdi disk image. Charles -- Charles Stroom email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
