Comments on: Don’t Rebuild Virtual PC’s, Copy Them

By: Cloning VirtualBox Virtual Machine Images | PCMech

Cloning VirtualBox Virtual Machine Images | PCMech — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:02:30 +0000

[...] have written in the past about how it is a huge time saver to copy/clone virtual machines instead of rebuilding them, however the information I supplied in that tip was with regards to Microsoft Virtual PC. The same [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:11:53 +0000

Reformat your Thumbdrive to NTFS. It is probably formatted in FAT32 which is limited to 4GB files.

By: Files

Files — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:35:34 +0000

QUESTION:
I am running XP, and using VM Windows server.
I works great.
I would like to move my VM enviromnment to my laptop, so I tried to copy the files (2) from the VM folder to a 8 GM USB stick.
The folder is only 4 gigs, but it returns an error ” not enough space” WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
does anyone know what I did wrong??
thx

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:26:28 +0000

You should probably copy the settings file too, that is located in the same folder.

By: Saqib

Saqib — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:30:43 +0000

Yes the original works fine.

By: Jason Faulkner

Jason Faulkner — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:18:44 +0000

You know, I have never tested it with a Server OS, only XP/2000. Does the original one still work fine?

By: Saqib

Saqib — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:12:44 +0000

I have a Windows 2003 Virtual PC which I built it on Vista Home but when I copied it on Vista Business and tried to run it. it keeps rebooting it. Any suggestions?