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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.

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.

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?

Yes.

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