I did the same thing. I just copied my .vdi file when I reformatted my computer and everything was right there.
Sue -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: vbox-users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 5 Send vbox-users mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of vbox-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Cloning a Complete Virtual Machine in VirtualBox (martin) 2. Re: Cloning a Complete Virtual Machine in VirtualBox (Martin Hooper) 3. Re: Cloning a Complete Virtual Machine in VirtualBox (Alexey Eremenko) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:39:22 +0000 (UTC) From: martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [vbox-users] Cloning a Complete Virtual Machine in VirtualBox To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I am using VirtualBox 1.4.0 on PCLinuxOS 2007. I have successfully created a running Windows 2000 SP4 virtual machine which is full patched and up to date. I want to completely copy this VM before I install any applications in case I have problems. I am not sure what I should be doing. I have tried to clonevdi without success getting the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ VBoxManage clonevdi w2ksp4.vdi new.vdi VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.4.0 (C) 2005-2007 innotek GmbH All rights reserved. [!] FAILED calling hardDisk->CloneToImage(Bstr(argv[1]), vdiOut.asOutParam (), progress.asOutParam()) at line 2322! [!] Primary RC = 0x80004004 [!] Full error info present: false, basic error info present: false Does anyone know what this means and how to get round it? Am I doing the right thing anyway? ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:59:41 +0100 From: "Martin Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [vbox-users] Cloning a Complete Virtual Machine in VirtualBox To: "VirtualBox end user list" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On 08/08/07, martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using VirtualBox 1.4.0 on PCLinuxOS 2007. I have successfully > created a running Windows 2000 SP4 virtual machine which is full patched > and up to date. I want to completely copy this VM before I install any > applications in case I have problems. > VDI files are just normal files so a copy from the terminal should just work for backing Windows 2000 up. I copied a WinXP VDI file from Windows Vista to Linux and attached it to a new VM in Linux and everything worked fine... ;) -- Martin Hooper http://www.martinjh.myby.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-users/attachments/20070808/f7433941/at tachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:59:44 +0200 From: "Alexey Eremenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [vbox-users] Cloning a Complete Virtual Machine in VirtualBox To: "VirtualBox end user list" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 You can simply copy the vdi. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users End of vbox-users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 5 **************************************** _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
