Export Appliance Newbie Question
Posted: 4. Mar 2013, 22:15
Hello,
I am a new VirtualBox user and new to virtualization. I have used VirtualBox version 4.2.8 with extension pack on a Windows 7 PC to recreate a crashed XP Home machine with Excel/Word 2000 to run existing spreadsheets with numerous custom macros and prepare documents of existing reports of those spreadsheet results. I also run QuoteTracker to monitor stocks and feed quote data into Excel. It's taken a couple of days but now the virtual XP machine is working just like the old real crashed PC. I have a new PC coming soon that will be running Windows 7 Pro. What I'd like to do is install VirtualBox on that new PC and then "move" the current XP virtual setup to the new PC via a USB hard drive. If I use the "Export Appliance" function of VirtualBox 4.2.8 to "save my current XP setup including all installed programs and files" to the USB drive, will the "Import Appliance" feature "restore" this XP setup completely on the new Windows 7 PC? Thank you very much for your help and please excuse the total newbie dumb question.
I am a new VirtualBox user and new to virtualization. I have used VirtualBox version 4.2.8 with extension pack on a Windows 7 PC to recreate a crashed XP Home machine with Excel/Word 2000 to run existing spreadsheets with numerous custom macros and prepare documents of existing reports of those spreadsheet results. I also run QuoteTracker to monitor stocks and feed quote data into Excel. It's taken a couple of days but now the virtual XP machine is working just like the old real crashed PC. I have a new PC coming soon that will be running Windows 7 Pro. What I'd like to do is install VirtualBox on that new PC and then "move" the current XP virtual setup to the new PC via a USB hard drive. If I use the "Export Appliance" function of VirtualBox 4.2.8 to "save my current XP setup including all installed programs and files" to the USB drive, will the "Import Appliance" feature "restore" this XP setup completely on the new Windows 7 PC? Thank you very much for your help and please excuse the total newbie dumb question.