VM OS Transfer Problem

[monit8B]

Hi there,

I am having a problem moving VMs from one OS to another. I already tried the different methods described in other topics, but to no avail.

Okay, first the basic descriptions.

I have 3 VMs that I want to move and most of them also have snapshots. These VMs are currently hostet under Linux and Virtualbox 4.1.4.
The VMs were created quite a while a ago and still have the old file structure "folders Machine & Harddisk"
Lets call these VMs XP1 (1 snapshot), XP2 ( 2 snapshots) and XP3 (no snapshot)

On the host system is XP running, also with Virtualbox 4.1.4 installed.

What I did so far was copy the whole .Virtualbox folder with all subfolders from the Linux drive to the XP drive. Tried editing the virtualbox.xml file but always got something like " " is not a recognized opearting system."

I want to have the VMs running on the XP host system under the drive & folder "E:\VMs"

Is there a way to transfer these VMs from Linux to XP without loosing the snapshots? I mean I made those snapshots for a good reason.

If someone could help me it would be very appreciated.

[Perryg]

You can move any that were created under 4.* and retain the snapshots.
For the ones created before version 4.* you would need to export the guest and import in the other host. However this does merge the snapshots into the base of the export and creates a single file.

[monit8B]

Okay,

thanks for the answer. It isn't what I hoped for, but if there's no other way to get it working ... I will probably go back on the snapshots and then merge what seems best.

Then you mean export as appliance file *.ova form the linux host and then import that on the windows host.

A follow up question: (As I will have to merge the VMs with the snapshots anyways to do that.) Is there a way to convert the pre 4.x VMs to the 4.x file format? To save me in the future going through the same trouble?

[Perryg]

Yes.

If the new host is ver 4.* and you import it you should have the new format.