Am 01.08.2013 21:35, schrieb Bill Oliver:
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 01.08.2013 21:02, schrieb Bill Oliver:
>> One more note. As I've mentioned before, I do a full wipe and installation
periodically on my machines. This can
>> be a hassle if one is left re-installing other virtual OSs as well. I have found
that, with VirtualBox, I can
>> simply back up the ./.VirtualBox directory and the "VirtualBox VMs"
directory, and then copy them back into my home
>> directory after the reinstall of Linux
>
> is virtualbox still so poor that you can't have simply all files
> related to a VM inside a single directory and need to manage
> virtual disks and iso-images that weird way as a few years ago?
>
> [snip]
I don't understand your complaint -- that there's a config directory *and* a disk
directory? I don't find that an
overwhelming burden.
The command "cp -R" doesn't seem to be too onerous a way to transfer stuff
from machine to machine
if you ever work with more than 20 virtual machines on serveral hosts
for testing, development as well as for production you will understand