On 14.08.2015 11:01, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi Joachim, > > On Friday 14 August 2015 10:01:53 Joachim Backes wrote: >> I'm running VirtualBox-5.0.2 in Fedora22 as host, and I found 2 >> directories in my homedirectoriy: >> >> ~/.VirtualBox and >> ~/VirtualBox \VMs >> >> What are the purposes (and differences) of these directories? Can I >> remove some of these dirs? > > better don't :) > > ~/.VirtualBox contains VirtualBox.xml which contains references to all > your VMs. The actual VMs are stored in ~/VirtualBox VMs/ by default but > this can also be changed using the global settings. And ~/.VirtualBox > is only used if this directory is already there. On a virgin installation, > the directory is created at ~/.config/VirtualBox.
Hi Frank, thank you for explanation. There are still some questions: 1. What do you mean by an "actual" VM? 2. I have two installed VM's, "win7" and "win10". The string "win7" appears not in "~/VirtualBox VMs", but "win10" several times. The string "win7" appears several times in "~/.VirtualBox", and the text "win10" too. The string "win7" appears several times in "~/.config/VirtualBox", but "win10" not. Why that? (Using the command "grep -ri win7 ..." or "grep -ri win10 ..." in these 3 directories) Kind regards Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel-4.1.5-200.fc22.x86_64 Joachim Backes <[email protected]> https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
