VirtualBox Disk Copy
August 29, 2008 9:29 pm Vm Desktop, VM
Well I now have a default windows (winxp) based image. I want to separate the virtual machines that I use. For work I need a virtual machine that I will use to give demonstrations, presentations and webex’s. I also want it to do PPTP VPN which is my work standard (god knows why), I know there might be a problem with PPTP based on what I was reading but I am not ready to tackle that yet.
For home I need a Virtual Machine that has some things that I can not run on Linux or can not run through Wine.
So I created a default image and then I needed to replicate it. Well I did it the VmWare way which was to copy the disk image over. Unfortunately this does not work with Virtualbox. You can copy the disk image as much as you want but it will have problems and can not get added.
To add the image you need to execute the following command:
VBoxManage internalcommands setvdiuuid NAME_Of_New_Image.vdi
This will assign a new ID to the disk and you can now add it in the new virtual machine. This is nice because you can take snapshots so to speak even without the software and then boot them in another system easily.
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