In VirtualBox, copying a virtual disk is a bit of a pain. If you copy the disk in Windows Explorer and try and use it in a new VM, VirtualBox will have a display an error shown below.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Oracle VM VirtualBox : Clone or Copy a Virtual Disk
As a virtual machine environment user, I regularly create ‘base’ images of machines that I can reuse . So when I need a new machine, I simply create a copy of the virtual disk and add any additional software I need, this save me a lot of time instead creating new virtual environments.
In VirtualBox, copying a virtual disk is a bit of a pain. If you copy the disk in Windows Explorer and try and use it in a new VM, VirtualBox will have a display an error shown below.
In VirtualBox, copying a virtual disk is a bit of a pain. If you copy the disk in Windows Explorer and try and use it in a new VM, VirtualBox will have a display an error shown below.
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