Setup: VBox running several vms on solaris (offshoot) openindiana host
 Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon  CPU X5460 @ 3.33GHz - 32 GB ram

I have several VBox vms running on an openindiana HOST (Solaris 11)

Need to reinstall on this same host with newer version of same OS.

What is the best way to move the vms....

Is a simple tarring+bzip2 up of them all and mving them off the
subject host until re-install has been completed.  The same filesystem
structure setup ... then:

Installing VBox for that newly installed OS and openning the
tarred+bzip2'ed file on the new fresh install a viable way to do this?

Will the VBox install find the unpacked vms ok?

And finally is it neccessary to include anything but the vms home
files?  That is, something like /vb/vm/vm1 /vb/vm/vm2 .. etc where
/vb/vm/vm[0-9]  has all disks and other related files in each directory.

Something like: ls /vb/vm/d0
Logs  d0-0.vdi  d0-1.vdi  d0-2.vdi  d0-3.vdi  d0-4.vdi  d0.vbox  d0.vbox-prev

Oh yes, and finally would it matter if I installed the newest VBox
release as apposed to the 5.0.28 that the vms are currently running under?


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