I installed one XP virtual system on one Vista PC.
How can I copy it to other Vista PCs without running the installation on each desktop?
(This is for a class of people who have XP desktops at home.)
Thanks,
Ted
how to copy one virtual system to many PCs?
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Re: how to copy one virtual system to many PCs?
They need to have VB installed before they can run the VM. If they need to have only the VM you made, compress the %userprofile%\.VirtualBox folder and give that to them. Let them restore it in their own user profile and it should be working without issues.
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Re: how to copy one virtual system to many PCs?
If these virtual XP boxes are networked together you also need to make each one unique. This is a Windows administrator task that needs to be done with replicating installations of Windows in general.
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Re: how to copy one virtual system to many PCs?
Thanks, it works fine. Ted