How to create a machine on an external drive?

[tfaessler]

Hi,

is it possible to create a machine on an external drive? I managed to create the VDI on my external disk, but the machine itself with the settings, snapshots etc is saved in my home directory.

Thanks

[Perryg]

In the preference setting for the main VBox program you can select to change the place where these are stored.

[tfaessler]

Ok, but these are the defaults. I want to have just one machine on a different (than the default) location. Is this possible?

[Perryg]

Only way I know of is to manually edit the virtualbox.xml and tell it where the file is. I have not tried this but it should work.
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