Where does virtualbox store data?

[davidh888]

Hello, I use VB to run a few different OS's. On my windows host machine, I use CCleaner and Recuva to clean out old cache, temp files, etc. When using a VM with VB, where do these files get stored and how to I clean them? Will running CCleaner on the host clean out those files, or do I need to do it within each VM? I'm mainly wondering where VB saves these files...

Thanks!

[mpack]

See section 10.1 of the user manual.

VirtualBox is a cross platform app and therefore does not rely on the Windows Registry to store anything, so CCleaner will be even less useful than normal.

[davidh888]

See section 10.1 of the user manual.

VirtualBox is a cross platform app and therefore does not rely on the Windows Registry to store anything, so CCleaner will be even less useful than normal.

Thanks, so would I have to use CCleaner within the VM's?

[mpack]

I'm not aware that you have to use CCleaner anywhere. Dead entries in the Windows Registry were never a problem, even if VirtualBox created any.