On 14.08.2015 12:30, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> Hi Joachim,
>
> On Friday 14 August 2015 12:19:34 Joachim Backes wrote:
>> 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)
>
> I don't know your configuration but it's unusual that you have both,
> ~/.config/VirtualBox and ~/.VirtualBox. The latter shouldn't be used when
> the former is present.
>
> To find your VMs, the preferred way is to go to the VirtualBox VM Selector
> (the main window where you start the machine from), open the "Machine"
> menu and select "show in explorer" ("Zeige im Dateimanager").
>
> You should also compare
>
> ~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml with
> ~/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml
>
> I assume that the latter was changed more recently and contains your
> latest changes. Both are XML files which should be easy to read. These
> files contain references to your VMs, just open it and you will understand.
Hi Frank,
very weird: first I found that ~/.config/VirtualBox did not contain the
"Machines" directory, so I copied ~/.VirtualBox/Machines to
~/.config/VirtualBox.
Then I removed ~/.VirtualBox. Now VirtualBox starts again my 2 VM's
flawlessly only with ~/.config/VirtualBox, but seems always to re-create
~/.VirtualBox directory when ending. Why that?
My impression: ~/.config/VirtualBox has no priority against
~/.VirtualBox, or ???
Sorry for my obstinacy :-)
Kind regards
Joachim Backes
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