guest ubuntu server from W7 host to Ubuntu Host

[Don Joy]

Hello everybody

The bottom line question:
How can I make my Ubuntu-Server DVI that is created on a W7 host work on the Ubuntu host of my fellow developer?


And here are the details:

I just started to develop a Java web application for a Ubuntu Server as a part of a team where part of us run W7 as main OS, and part of us run ubuntu.
We decided to use VirtualBox for our servers.

I created a VirtualBox, installed as Ubuntu Server.
When I'm working on it on my machine - all is fine.

But - when we tried to copy the Main DVI to a ubuntu host, create a new VM and attach the DVI to it - the server wont boot with the following error:

Error: no such disk.

Even cloning the disk using

VBoxManage clonehd

did not help.
We even tried copying the DVI from my host OS using a ubuntu guest and shared folder to make sure that the created file is made by ubuntu...

I met some references about boot-config of ubuntu, and using part of the UUID in some recognition part - but nothing concrete I can try to fiddle with...

If we don't find a solution quickly, the project will have to use VMWare, which I really dislike...

Please help...

Thanks,
Don-Joy

[Perryg]

Why not use the export and import of VBox? It was designed to help with this.
Other then that you need to make sure that the settings are compatible on the second machine. (the guest settings)
Another thing that you need to keep in mind is when moving a Linux guest to another PC the NIC (MAC) will be different and you will not be using eth0 unless you
edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules or you can delete the rules and Linux will configure it on the next boot.

[Don Joy]

Same settings...
I don't believe that I fell in that.

We got it working finally.

The problem was that I installed it on a 2 processor, 1G Ram and Sata Disk, and my college connected the disk to the IDE controller.

We compared all the settings one by one.
I must note that my machine featured more settings than his.
We ignored settings that did not exist.
But - For some reason my collegue could not allocate a 2nd processor - but - surprisingly - once the IDE/SATA & memory were fit it worked anyway!

[Perryg]

For some reason my collegue could not allocate a 2nd processor -

This is usually due to the hardware-v not being enabled or missing in the PCs bios.