On maandag 14 november 2011 16:15:42 Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> 
> The other possibility is to `rsync' the .VDI.  Restoring would be to
> copy the .VDI back to the source.  Again, the GUID may be tied to the
> .VDI so if you re-create the VM, you'll need to ensure its GUID
> reflects the original.

This is about what I do.

I stop the VM, I rsync the three .VDI files to another system. On the other 
system I just recreated the VM using these three .VDI files as the disks of 
the new VM. Just make sure the other details of the VM are the same. Pay 
attention to the MAC address of the Ethernet interface. I have two definitions 
of an Ethernet interface in the original system. eth0 is linked to the 
interface in the original VM. The other eth1 in the original VM has no 
interface to link to in that system. But when starting that system in the 
second VM eth1 will be linked to the MAC address of the Ethernet interface in 
that system, so it gets the IP address defined with eth1. So you can have both 
systems active on a bridged network. The VM's are using a bridged interface.

For testing I rsync the three .VDI files to a remote system, not on the same 
Ethernet. The created VM there gets an Ethernet interface with the same MAC 
address as the original VM, so when starting it gets the same IP address as 
the original VM, but it is a 192.168.x.x address.

-- 
fr.gr.

Freek de Kruijf

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