How to use a VM created with a Windows XP host with a Mac

[mc2]

Hello,

I created a Windows 7 VM using a windows Virtual Box and I want to use this VM in my mac book air. It's not working if I just copy the created VM on my mac. How can I do that ?

Thanks !

[Perryg]

Try export and then import to other guest.
See Chapter 1.12. Importing and exporting virtual machines in your VirtualBox users manual

[mc2]

Thanks, I tried that but estimated time for exporting my VM is arround 6 hours ...
And I'm afraid that it creates me a VM sized at the max size that I defined ...

[Perryg]

I bet you have a ton of snapshots. If that is the case then export is the only way since it combines all the snapshots into the final file.

[mc2]

No I have no snapshots, I just created the VM. But thanks for the link in users manual, I didn't see that we can modify VM settings and so modify the OS host ...
I will try that. I will keep you posted.

Thanks again for your help !