Don’t bother – VirtualBox now natively supports .vhd drives – how handy is that? =D
But if you really wanted to, just use:
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VBoxManage clonehd source.vhd target.vdi --format vdi |
This will place the .vdi version of your drive in your current users VirtualBox folder, which is: ~/.VirtualBox
Relatedly, to go the other way (.vdi to .vhd) you could use:
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VBoxManage clonehd source.vdi target.vhd --format vhd |
Note: For this to work, you must not have the drive attached to any virtual machine, so if you already have it connected to a virtual machine, detach it first, mkay?
One more option is… sometimes all we need!!!
Thanks…
I was looking for a easy step by step process. Save me so much time…
Gracias!!!
Thanks for sharing this.
Mine kept failing and had to google to find out that if i have spaces in directory name and is on another drive say X:\VM 2012\source.vhd, then i have to use “X:\Vm 2012\source.vhd” and same for target.
so it should be:
VBoxManage clonehd “X:\Dir Name\source.vhd” “X:\Dir Name\target.vdi” –format vdi
Hello, Just use in Oracle VirtualBox 4.1.12 r77245, File, CTRL+D, Copy and that’s all. Work perfectly. Regards. daniel
That’s pretty spiffy – thanks for the heads-up!
Cheers,
r3dux
Thanks Daniel……much easier to use GUI. Easier to redirect output to somewhere other than the uses ./Virtualbox folder as well.
this is exactly what i was looking for. much easier from the gui
Hi!
Thats is exactly what I need !
How to do all THAT you write here but in WINDOWS ?
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Same way – look in: Program Files/Oracle/VirtualBox/VBoxManage.exe
Worked like a charm! Thanks so much for sharing.
Very helpful – thx a lot!
It worked.
Thank you very much.