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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe