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By: Adam

Thanks alot for this guide, really helped me alot!

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By: Wim

Hi, with version 4.1.0 there is a CLONE button!!! I had to move the vdi’s from C: to D: because of the space I needed. - In File – Preferences I changed the Default Machine Folder to a folder on D: -...

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By: antechno

nice blog.. can you add my site to your blogroll…. :)

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By: Stat

Hi, I tried using a cloned image but this came up E_INVALIDARG (0×80070057) and something with the UUID, what can I do to solve this problem Thanks.

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By: Aladdin

Excellent article Stuart. It’s very useful especially with the inline notes. Thanks

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By: Sk8nFool

Excellent write up. I’m using VB 4.1.2 and cloned a VM. I selected the Full option. The result was a new VDI without any dependency on any other VDI. Now I haven’t started this clone up yet bit this...

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By: Bosco

Thanks buddy.. good instructions.. tested and worked fine.

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By: Rico Chet

Thank you Stuart! Just found out that simply copying a VM — which works with VMware WS flawlessly — doesn’t work with VBox and even broke my development VM :(. Spent hours today repairing it, now it...

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By: Can I just copy and rename a VirtualBox vm?

[...] found a tutorial here describing the process. Answered by [...]

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By: Lucas Potter Skyywalker

If you just want to MOVE your VMs to a different location, I found this topic very useful: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=48258#p219285 Just followed it and it’s working fine....

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By: Jessica

thanks this helped so much! be sure however, that you are already in the folder where your original .vdi is in the command prompt before you run the code.

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By: Bob Terwilliger

Cloning now seems to be natively built-in; for more info see http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/itdojo/clone-and-move-virtual-machines-in-virtualbox/3305

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By: byggegrunde sønderborg

Howdy! This post couldn’t be written any better! Reading this post reminds me of my previous room mate! He always kept chatting about this. I will forward this post to him. Fairly certain he will have...

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By: O C

Experiment with a timeout buffer, this actually speeds things up. I believe it is to do with exhausting the burst capability on the SSD. You will notice the initial clone creates, quickly then a...

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By: whydoubt

Couldn’t find my Q thru search, but: Why do so many continue to ignore the reality regarding failures, in trying to create VMs using .vhd of Windows OS installed on a different physical machine? The...

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