help!HOW DO I LOAD THE Snapshots

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sun888
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help!HOW DO I LOAD THE Snapshots

Post by sun888 »

My hard disk was bad,before i backup(copy) the Win2003.vhd,.VirtualBox,and VirtualBox VMs,

now in the new computer,i can load the win2003.vhd,

but i couldn't load the Snapshots-VHD,HOW CAN I DO?

some files in the Snapshots-vhd.

HELP ME,THANKS!
mpack
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Re: help!HOW DO I LOAD THE Snapshots

Post by mpack »

The entire VM folder is important, not just the hard disk image files. If you have a backup of the entire VM folder then simply copy that folder to its working position and then double click the .vbox file.
  • Do NOT restore the VirtualBox.xml file from the backup - let the new VBox install create a new (blank) one.
  • Do restore the "VirtualBox VMs" folder.
Add each VM back one at a time as described in the first paragraph. Doing it this way ensures that any minor path changes do not cause failures.
sun888
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Re: help!HOW DO I LOAD THE Snapshots

Post by sun888 »

mpack wrote:The entire VM folder is important, not just the hard disk image files. If you have a backup of the entire VM folder then simply copy that folder to its working position and then double click the .vbox file.
  • Do NOT restore the VirtualBox.xml file from the backup - let the new VBox install create a new (blank) one.
  • Do restore the "VirtualBox VMs" folder.
Add each VM back one at a time as described in the first paragraph. Doing it this way ensures that any minor path changes do not cause failures.


Thanks for your help!,Let me try.
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