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I have created a VirtualBox guest (Oracle Enterprise Linux 5) with two vdi files, one for the os and one for applications/user data on IDE controllers. The guest functions fine on the original host (also OEL5). To copy the guest to another host (Windows), I shutdown the guest, exported the appliance, and copied the two vmdk, mf & ovf files to the target. When I import the appliance (using gui), everything looks good and the process starts. However, the import process fails to handle both vmdk files; I wind up with two user disks and no os disk. I have tried importing the appliance on a different OEL5 host with the same results. If I copy the original vdi files to the target and create a guest using these files, everything is fine. I can verify that the disks are correctly identified in the ovf file, too, and the gui sees them OK.

Did I miss something in the export/import appliance process? Or is something broken? This is on VirtualBox 3.2.6.

Thanks,
Andrew

See if this applies http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7001
Only when using multiple VDI's and Multi partitions but I bet it is because of the same problem

Yes; this appears to be the same issue (without the shared folder issue). The only difference I see is that the guest in the ticket uses SATA and my guest uses IDE for the disk images.