VirtualBox - Clone, Import & Export VMs

Let's see how to clone our VirtualBox virtual machines and how to export a VM to an OVA file, that can be used to transfer a virtual machine to another computer.

[sinmar]

Hi, thank you for this helpful video! Will the export still work if I have one snapshot that I would like to keep ?

[eddiesneeh]

Outstanding video with a clear explanation of each option. Thank you!
I should have done that before my disk crashed. I have recovered the .vdi file and its directory, but still running into hickups trying to load it in a new computer (different OS version 10->11, different version of Oracle VM Manager, on top of that I had CentOS for my VM, but now it's not an option in the new VM Manager I had installed on the new computer).

[zensirdes]

Thanks for all your super useful tutorials AP! can you please guide us on how to add the W10 Vbox machine to an UBUNTU laptop to dualboot it? Thankyou!

[pawanmaurya]

Just the thing I was looking for. Thanks.

[Sth]

what about if everything fails.. I've been trying to clone/export a 50gb vm for couple days now, copying the folder with the vm file and the disk does not work either, cannot import the vm file because I do not have the disk and I cannot import the disk because the machine has not been configured yet...

[benjaminemori]

Thanks for making such a Great video sir!👍

[Bestenouf]

Thank you. To the point in good amount of time.

[charlstonbajuyo]

Thanks to this video, btw does the exported file contain the data along with it like the installed programs and other stuff?

[CarltonsCasino]

How to Export Macos to External SSD using virtualbox on a Windows 10 pc? My Virtual machine is 100GB in Virtualbox and is taking up too much space on my C drive so I want to run it from my external ssd (Samsung T7)

[ademchokri]

Could exporting or importing the virtual machine ruin the data within it ? ( assuming no errors being made while exporting )

[Eli-mpli]

Great video! Question please. I have configured a Linux virtual machine with Docker containers on a VMware player (free version) within a physical Linux box for personal use. Since I can't create snapshots with VMware player free in case something occurs, I would like to convert this VM into Virtualbox instead, without it changing any configurations. Is this possible? I've seen multiple videos on this but on Windows machines, not Linux. Sorry for the long message :(.

[oziomaoparaocha]

so with this i would be able to transfer my vm to someone and when the person imports it hell still have all my data also

[mindaugaskucinskas]

Thank you smart guy ;) and shave your face because looking older than you are :D