Am trying to find the way to move hard drive locations for VM, but so far it's being unsuccessful.
Need to change HDD location for Win Server 2008 actual location is /home/user/.virtualbox and my / partition looks full on my linux.
There is a way to modify this?
Thnks
VM Hdd location
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Perryg
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Re: VM Hdd location
You change the location from the VBox program GUI select file -> preferences -> General.
Be sure that you know what you are doing.
I did this by making a complete copy of the .virtualbox folder to a different location (everything closed down) and I made a copy of the virtualbox.xml for safety.
Switched the location and it all worked. You might need to edit the virtualbox.xml file to get it to sync properly.
Once I had made sure that it all worked properly I deleted the original folder.
Be sure that you know what you are doing.
I did this by making a complete copy of the .virtualbox folder to a different location (everything closed down) and I made a copy of the virtualbox.xml for safety.
Switched the location and it all worked. You might need to edit the virtualbox.xml file to get it to sync properly.
Once I had made sure that it all worked properly I deleted the original folder.
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stefan.becker
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Re: VM Hdd location
Other Solution may be a symbolic link like
"ln -s /home/YOURNAME/.VirtualBox/VDI /WHERE/YOU/HAVE/PLACE_ON/YOUR/DISK/VDI"
"ln -s /home/YOURNAME/.VirtualBox/VDI /WHERE/YOU/HAVE/PLACE_ON/YOUR/DISK/VDI"
German Howto (Linux): http://www.linuxforen.de/forums/showthread.php?t=236444
User Manual / Download Section: http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/Downloads
FAQ: http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/User_FAQ http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=8669
User Manual / Download Section: http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/Downloads
FAQ: http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/User_FAQ http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=8669