Using Snapshots on another Host

[mcbain]

Hello,
I have the following Problem:
I made several snapshots of my XP-Guest. Now I want use my XP-Guest on another Host. But I can only import the base *.vdi of my XP-Guest. The snapshots aren't available.

How I can use my snapshots of my XP-Guest on new Host too?

Can somebody help me please, didn't find a answer until now.
thx.

[Perryg]

What version of VirtualBox were the guests created with?

[mcbain]

The version I created the snapshots: 4.0.4

[Perryg]

If the guest (not the snapshots) was created in version 4.* of VirtualBox you can copy the entire guests folder to the other machine (which is also running version 4.* of VirtualBox) and then dbl click on the guests .vbox file. This will register the guest and all snapshots.

[mcbain]

I didn't find a *.vbox file. I only have *.vdi. Where is the *.vbox normally located?

[Perryg]

Like I said, if the guests was creted using version 4.* of VirtualBox you will find this file in the same folder that has the *.vdi file.
If not then my discussion will not help resolve your issue. The only way to transport the older versions is to export/import, which flattens all snapshots into the base and you have just one file on the imported PC.

[mcbain]

Ok, and what is to do, when the locations of the *.vbox und *.vdi on my old pc differs to my new pc? Then I have to adjust the Snapshot-directory named in the *.vbox file manually?

Thanks so far.

[Perryg]

I answered that in my reply above.

[Perryg]

Tell you what. Why not just take a screen shot showing the two file managers showing the actual location of the files in question & post here.

[mpack]

It would help to know the current VBox version. If it's 4.1.0 or later (i.e. supports new clone feature in the GUI) then I suggest that the simplest route is to clone the VM first, then copy the clone VM folder to the new host, as the latter will be in V4 format and hence portable. Your choice whether to clone all (which preserves the snapshot structure), or only clone the current state (which creates a merged image).