de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > Just for reference, here is how to clone a linux guest when using a > windows XP host. > > 1) The default installation place for vbox is: > > C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM > > 2) If vbox was installed by user foo, there will be a directory > > C:\Documents and Settings\foo\.VirtualBox\VDI > > where the boot ide is located; say linux-vm.vdi. > > 3) Open a DOS window at C:\Documents and Settings\fvu and enter > > "..\..\Programs Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" clonevdi > VDI\linux-vm.vdi linux-vm-clone.vdi > > > This will create the clone in the same folder as the original vdi. > > Mine had ~6GB for a working gentoo linux vm. It took about 3 hours > for the clone to be created. I successfully transported to a second > Windows XP machine and it worked!! I installed vbox-1.6.2 on the > second XP just as I did on the first and saved the linux clone in > the corresponding folder. > > Great job vbox team. > > -- Valmor
I'd like to see a "grow vdi" function. i.e. I created an 8gb WinXp virtual. But hindsight showed it needed twice as much space. So the ability to grow the vid and transparently extend the virtual hard drive to fill the space (a la GParted or Partition Magic) would be sweet. And would have saved me some hair-pulling & teeth-gritting. -- Cheers, SDM -- a 21st Century Schizoid Man Systems Theory internet music project: <www.systemstheory.net> on MySpace: <www.myspace.com/systemstheory> on Last FM: <www.last.fm/music/Systems+Theory> get "Codetalkers" *free* at <www.mikedickson.org.uk/codetalkers> NP: nothing _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
