However, in my experience when creating the OVA or OVF file for export it throws away all snapshots and if done incorrectly can result in a VMDK file. This is the easiest because it combines the whole VM into a single file and transfers it over without issue pretty much every time. What’s the best method of safely transferring my VM’s to another computer with VirtualBox? I don't want any XML editing getting in my way! It’s clear from the above explanation that my desired method is the 2nd one, but I need expert advice on this if it works or not. When searching about this method, I found some people had problems in which they had to edit the VirtualBox.xml file to solve it!Īt last, there’s the 3rd method, but it requires the extra work of creating a VM similar to the original VM configuration, which is not desirable. The 2nd method is probably the easiest but I’m not sure that simply copying the files will work or not on the target machine. The problem is that after exporting and importing, the disk image is transformed into VMDK and not VDI anymore! I have successfully used the 1st method several times and it has always worked.

Clone the VDI using “Virtual Media Manager” and then recreate a VM on the target machine but using the cloned VDI as the hard disk.

Copy the entire virtual machine folder, containing the.

Since there are several ways one can move a virtual machine in VirtualBox to another computer, I was wondering which one is the recommended way: I use VirtualBox 4.1.x on my Ubuntu machine and I’ve set up several virtual machines.

Virtualbox transfer files