{"id":38,"date":"2010-01-04T16:13:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-01-04T16:13:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:13:41","slug":"sun-virtual-box-cloning-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/01\/04\/sun-virtual-box-cloning-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Virtual Box &#8211; Cloning machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Sun&#8217;s Virtual Box &#8211; its cross platform (I run it on Windows 7 X64,OS X and Ubuntu), FREE and works \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nCloning machines is pretty the same as all OS&#8217;s, with one slight twist&#8230;..<br \/>\n1) Copy the VDI file you want to clone\/backup.<br \/>\n2) This file won&#8217;t boot because it has the same UUID as the first file you copied, so need to use VBoxManage utility to give it a new random UUID.<br \/>\n3) Open command prompt, and change to your Vbox directory with VBoxMange.exe in it. Probably located at C:Program FilesSunxVM VirtualBox<br \/>\n4) Run this command in command prompt<br \/>\nVBoxManage internalcommands setvdiuuid &#8220;D:My Virtual MachinesVDIHardDiskName.vdi&#8221;<br \/>\nObviously you would change the above path to point to your NEW VDI file that you created (not the original).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Sun&#8217;s Virtual Box &#8211; its cross platform (I run it on Windows 7 X64,OS X and Ubuntu), FREE and works \ud83d\ude42 Cloning machines is pretty the same as all OS&#8217;s, with one slight twist&#8230;.. 1) Copy the VDI file you want to clone\/backup. 2) This file won&#8217;t boot because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[55,56],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware-virtual-box-hyperv","tag-virtual-box","tag-vm","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iddles.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}