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HI,
Was wondering if anyone knew of a way to deploy settings for a windows guest to a few computers ?

I would like to share an immutable base windows image, so they can run virtualbox on the hosts and connect to a base machine, play around, but settings wiped.

I have such a base image, and its set as immutable, and multi-attach works fine. But I am looking for some way to give out the settings of this machine to the various machines with virtual box installed on. I tried linking directly to the vbox file, but it complained over the lack of storage guid configured directly, i couldnt see a way to reference the storage disk via a path other than guid.

The people using wouldnt have much access to the machine (Hence the need for a virtual contained machine they can play with in safety)

Any ideas ? Sorry if I have missed something obvious

Moved to "Using Virtualbox" as this has nothing to do with a Windows Guest.

Have you considered just copying the VM folder to the PCs and register that machine using vboxmanage in a remote prompt?
Or is there something else you want to achieve?

Probably being dim. but when I try to register the machine on a fresh install froma copied folder, . I get this error :

VBoxManage.exe: error: Could not find an open hard disk with UUID {8162df05-bb1f-47b7-ad8c-cee066f0e0f0}
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee IUnknown
VBoxManage.exe: error: Context: "OpenMachine(Bstr(a->argv[0]).raw(), machine.asOutParam())" at line 88 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp

On a new install I don't have the disk in media manager, I'm thinking maybe add the machine without a hard drive, then use script to attach the disk image and change its mode to immutable?

Or if there is an easier way

If the disk was made immutable before copying, it also means you have a base disk AND a diff disk for tempory changes. Are you sure you have copied everything and that everything was actually located in the VM folder?