Using VB image/settings from Windows host on Linux host

[doktor5000]

At school i exported the whole appliance to an .ova container, which took nearly an hour
for a 3.5 GiB .vdi and an 13 GiB snapshot file, and imported it over on a freshly installed
Win 7 machine with VirtualBox 4.0.8 and it worked like a charm.

@perryg: Is it possible to add me to the watch list or CC me for the ticket that AntonyReynolds opened?

[Perryg]

Reply to the ticket and you will be added. You need to setup an account there as it is on a different system though.

[cmoraes]

I solved this removing any references to DVDs from <DVDImages> AND <StorageControllers> in .vbox file

[AntonyReynolds]

I found out that I had missed a SharedFolders reference.
I deleted all references to DVDImages and SharedFolders, replacing
<DVDImages>...<DVDImages> with <DVDImages/>
and
<SharedFolders>...<SharedFolders> with <SharedFolders/>

Seems that earlier versions were more forgiving.

[JFTechnologist]

I had the same issue, and this thread gave me the clues that I needed to resolve.

For me, I had attached a second VHD on the Source machine, which I had neglected to copy to the Target machine.

EG;

<AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="0">
<Image uuid="{Blahblah}"/>
</AttachedDevice>
<AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="1" device="0">
<Image uuid="{Blargh}"/>
</AttachedDevice>


I simply removed the second device and bingo.