Hi Chris,
If in case you wanted to merge the 3 snapshot into the hard disk VDI, I'm
afraid you cannot do that without losing your snapshots. As far as I know
you have to delete those 3 snapshots in order to merge those differencing
images.
If you want to just put all VDIs into HardDisks directory, you could try to
manipulate the .vbox XML file. But I never tried it myself, so backup it
first. :)
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Okky Hendriansyah
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 06:40:09AM +0700, Okky Hendriansyah wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Chris Green <[1][email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I have a Windows XP guest machine that comprises a .vdi file in
> > ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks and three .vdi files under the machine name
> in
> > ~/.VirtualBox/Machines.
> >
> > Is there any way I can save these all into a single (more compact)
> .vdi
> > file? I don't use any of the snapshots, just the last/latest one.
> >
> > Looking at the directory structures. it looks like you are using VDI
> > images back from the old days of VirtualBox, please CMIIW. A VDI file
>
> Yes, you're right, these are images from a long time ago that have just
> kept working as my version of VirtualBox has moved on.
>
>
> > could be a single disk image, or it could be a snapshot image. I
> think you
> > cannot combine 4 disks into 1 disk if each of the VDI image is a disk
> > image. But in case the 3 of the VDI files in ~/.VirtualBox/Machines
> > directory are snapshot images, you can merge the snapshots to its disk
> > parent in ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks by deleting the Windows XP
> > snapshots.Could you list all VDI filenames that you want to merge?
> >
> I have one file in ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks:-
> -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 3648078336 Nov 28 2008 XP MKIII.vdi
>
> ... and three snapshots in ~/.VirtualBox/Machines/XP MKIII/Snapshots:-
> -rw------- 1 chris chris 4137763328 Nov 29 2008
> {0cdd5acb-ba1f-497a-bac8-8683ecd1ded8}.vdi
> -rw------- 1 chris chris 19264520704 Oct 28 15:56
> {314baf06-63ab-459f-970a-614c0a16eb83}.vdi
> -rw------- 1 chris chris 14111818240 Apr 4 2009
> {8ab31cc4-b492-4df0-8202-a27439263a08}.vdi
>
> So, I want to merge these three snapshots into the HardDisk .vdi.
>
>
> Thanks for your help so far.
>
>
> --
> Chris Green
>
>
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