[vbox-dev] Best way to move a vm to another pc?

[Geoff Nordli]

-----Original Message-----
From: vbox-dev-bounces at virtualbox.org
[mailto:vbox-dev-bounces at virtualbox.org] On Behalf Of S. Brandt
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 3:12 AM
To: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Best way to move a vm to another pc?

walt schrieb:
> On 09/19/2009 05:00 PM, Huihong Luo wrote:
>> Thanks, walt.
>> Yes, that will work, provided the drive letter and directory hierarchy
>> keep exactly same on different PCs, because absolute paths are used in
>> those xml files...
> 
> Hm, yes, I see that you're right.  I never noticed that before.
> 
> I'm guessing (I'm not one of the devs) that this may have to do with
> security, but that's only a guess.  Maybe one of the devs would tell
> us why absolute paths are used?

[Geoff Nordli] 

On windows you can also look at the "subst" command.  It will allow you to
map any folder to a drive letter.

Have a great day!

Geoff
v