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Is there a way on a Win7 x64 to copy a virtualbox machine to a different Win7 x64 host?

Try File -> Export Appliance.

If you have version => 4.* you can copy the entire guest folder to the other PC and just use the add feature.

Perryg wrote:If you have version => 4.* you can copy the entire guest folder to the other PC and just use the add feature.

Guest Folder? Is thaat craeted from the Appliance option??

What appliance option?

The "guest folder" is the disk folder where VirtualBox puts all files related to that guest (VM). It can be found in <userdata>\VirtualBox VMs\<vm name>.

Please read the user manual, where terms such as "guest" are explained in great detail.

mpack wrote:What appliance option?

The "guest folder" is the disk folder where VirtualBox puts all files related to that guest (VM). It can be found in <userdata>\VirtualBox VMs\<vm name>.

Please read the user manual, where terms such as "guest" are explained in great detail.

I have 4.1.12 and do not have such a folder in Win7 x64. I have a c:\users\username\.Virtualbox\Hard Disks and a c:\users\username\.Virtualbox\Machines. This machine did have and older version of Virtuablbox on it and was upgraded to 4,1.12 recently.

Ah ha. Well that means the guest was created before version 4.* and not going to have the new structure. Do you have snapshots?

Perryg wrote:Ah ha. Well that means the guest was created before version 4.* and not going to have the new structure. Do you have snapshots?

Yes I do but I clone the guest and I can delete the older ones on the clone so that the differences are merged together if need be.

Yes. That would be the proper way and then when you create the new guest (from the clone) it should be in the new structure format. This will create a folder in the VirtualBox VMs folder and you can then move that to a different host. The advantage to doing it this way is the control files will go along with the *.vdi and you will only need to add it to the other and all set-ups will be done automatically.

Thanks Perryg. I will do that process.

If you don't need the snapshots in the clone then tell the UI to clone the current state. That gives you a snapshot-free clone right away.