Swapping VM images via USB 3.0 storage

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espressobeanie
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Swapping VM images via USB 3.0 storage

Post by espressobeanie »

Hi,

I'm having trouble swapping VM images between computers via a USB 3.0 thumbdrive. I continuously receive corrupted image messages. Is there a particular format the thumdrive needs to be at, like NTFS or FAT32 to make this work or is it just not possible yet?
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Re: Swapping VM images via USB 3.0 storage

Post by ChipMcK »

try a Google search usb 3.0 site:forums.virtualbox.org
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Re: Swapping VM images via USB 3.0 storage

Post by mpack »

I'm not quite sure what ChipMcK is referring to, but storing VMs on a removable drive should not be a problem. VirtualBox doesn't care what API the host uses to talk to its drives, removable or not.
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