How to Move Your VirtualBox VM to an External Drive

This tutorial is on a Mac, but the steps are similar on Windows. If you are running out of storage space on your computer but need to use a virtual machine(s) then this is the video for you! It is very simple to move you VM's disk image file to external storage. This can be done easily before you create your machine or you can move an existing machine! This video may seem on the long side, but I wanted to make sure I explained the process well! If you have any issues or questions, be sure to leave them in the comments down below!

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[TaqiUlAbrar]

Most detailed explanatory video I've seen so far.
You should keep creating videos, you have good talent.

[ajking]

Dude thank you. I asked a guy from IT at work and he said it was not possible, but you have given me hope. Definitely will subscribe and view your other content. Cheers!

[Aussiebuck]

Love your videos so much Ive watched like three of them and they were all so thoroughly detailed. Thank you so much :)

[mohammedissam]

The fact that he says acutely don’t delete does files got me to sub

[kodomork]

great vid thumbs up as first time when I needed something and found exact what I was searching for

[FlyboyHelosim]

Also let's not forget the Export Appliance feature, which allows you to package up the VM and all its necessary files into one portable file. You'd primarily want to use this for backup purposes when maybe getting a new disk drive rather than moving a VM in use on your current storage configuration.

[frooogle]

Thank you Sir for this very much useful video!! Made my task easy!

[burakcetinkaya]

you have my thanks for this awesome video. this saved me a lot of time and money. very much helpful.

[lnolyyq]

Very informative video,
Thanks a lot !

[nextlevel]

subscribed ! awsome & easy explanaion

[mindsetpower]

Thanks, Need more tutorial about storages. Coz my C drive is running low and I want to use my SSD C drive to run my VM and use another drive for my downloads inside VM

[redakarim]

Very helpful video! I was thinking to install Ubuntu Linux but on a flash drive for the storage use, do u think it will work good enough running straight from a flash drive and lets say 2gb of RAM?

[vjcpa]

Hi, thanks for the video. Really helpful. Does it matter how the thumb drive is formatted? (ExFat, Mac OS formats etc)? I’m asking because I have a 4Tb external drive partitioned to 2 different formats.

[jonathanmelamed]

Your videos are so helpful!!
 
Any insight/ videos on how to increase the storage on the VM now that it's on an external HD with much more storage? Thanks again!

[bennguyen]

Is there a way to image the XP VDI/VHD onto an external drive such that it boots/runs from another laptop via USB/SATA cable?

[HeyGuysHave]

Hi thanks I wanted to actually upgrade my windows from 8.1 to 10 and I wanted to keep all of my files and settings, therefore I used your tutorial, and thanks for that, but now the situation is that after the windows upgrade I want to put everything back in VM in a new window, with the same VM kali settings, kindly tell me how to do it. Kind Regards A

[noahbrown]

Super useful thank you so much! My only question is what format should I have my external hard drive on. Mine is on fat 32 rn. ty.

[Dani-plcv]

I love this video so much, however, I have a question: my external hard drive contains over 1 TB of space, if I choose to store my VM there am I able to set the size to over 300 GiGs, etc?

[jonathanedwardgoode]

How do I power off my vm without it returning to installation mode when I restart? I tried removing the iso bit usually get a "no bootable media error".

[bakedbeans]

I moved it to my 1tb ssd but the virtual machine is not booting it stays on the windows loading page. Is there anything I can do to fix this?