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<refentry id="vboxmanage-movevm" lang="en">
  <refentryinfo>
    <pubdate>$Date: 2023-04-21 21:59:02 +0000 (Fri, 21 Apr 2023) $</pubdate>
    <title>VBoxManage movevm</title>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>VBoxManage-movevm</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>VBoxManage-movevm</refname>
    <refpurpose>move a virtual machine to a new location on the host system</refpurpose>
    <refclass>&product-name;</refclass>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-movevm">
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      <command>VBoxManage movevm</command>
      <group choice="req">
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>uuid</replaceable></arg>
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>vmname</replaceable></arg>
      </group>
      <arg>--type=basic</arg>
      <arg>--folder=<replaceable>folder-name</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-movevm-description">
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>
      The <command>VBoxManage movevm</command> command moves a virtual
      machine (VM) to a new location on the host system.
    </para>
    <para>
      When moved, all of the files that are associated with the VM, such
      as settings files and disk image files, are moved to the new
      location. The &product-name; configuration is updated
      automatically.
    </para>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option><replaceable>uuid</replaceable> | <replaceable>vmname</replaceable></option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) or name
            of the VM to move.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--type=basic</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the type of the move operation. So far
            <literal>basic</literal> is the only recognized value and also
            the default if not specified.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--folder=<replaceable>folder-name</replaceable></option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies a full path name or relative path name of the new
            location on the host file system. Not specifying the option
            or specifying the current location is allowed, and moves
            disk images and other parts of the VM to this location if
            they are currently in other locations.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-movevm-examples">
    <title>Examples</title>
    <remark role="help-scope" condition="GLOBAL" />
    <para>
      The following command moves the <filename>ol7</filename> VM to a
      new location on the host system.
    </para>
<screen>$ VBoxManage movevm ol7 --folder "/home/testuser/vms" --type basic
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Machine has been successfully moved into /home/testuser/vms</screen>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>