Environment: VirtualBox v4.1.8
- Backup everything that you’ll be touching in case anything goes wrong and you need to revert back.
- Move the
<vm>.vdihard disk file from the old machine’s"$HOME/.VirtualBox/VDI"to the new machine. - Move the
<vm>directory from the old machine’s"$HOME/VirtualBox VMs"to the new machine. - Edit the
"$HOME/VirtualBox VMs/<vm>/<vm>.vbox"file to change the old<HardDisk>location to that of the new machine. - Double-click on this
vboxfile to load it into VirtualBox. - Start the VM. It should load without any error.