[Novalug] Importing VirtualBox Appliances

Nick Danger nick at hackermonkey.com
Thu Dec 2 18:54:44 EST 2010


On 12/02/2010 06:51 PM, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
> As a potential solution to an installation problem of Win-7 on a laptop,
> discussed in a previous post, I'm considering exporting an "appliance" to move
> the working Win-7 installation to my Laptop via import of the appliance.
>
> Is this possible, i.e., have you done analogous moves? Is this a dumb question???
>
> Might there be problems because of differing hardware? Both are running Ubuntu
> 10.04 "Lucid."
>
You can move the virtual instance around. It should be (if I remember 
correctly) a file ending in .vdi. Just move that to the new PC, run vbox 
and 'import' it.



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