I had a ~70 GB VM in virtual box to be moved into a different drive for the lack of space on original drive. Couple of screenshots below will help anyone trying to do the same.
- Run VirtualBox Manager
- Go to File, Virtual Media Manager
- Click on the VM and say “Release”
- In the next step there is very important instruction to either DELETE or KEEP the VM (Please use KEEP as we are trying to just move the location of VM and not delete it)
- By now the VM is released and removed from the virtual Box Manager, so we move to the desired location. So copy the contents of the folder containing VMDK file to your desired location now.
- Now change the location of preferred folder in virtual box manager (from file | preferences)
- When you close and open the Virtual Box Manager, you might see that the old VM is inaccessible but do not panic as we will set it right now.
- Right click the VM and say, remove
- Now you will see that the old VM is not seen even in the virtual box manager
- Go to Machine | Add
- Pick the location of desired folder and choose .VBOX file
- Now the VM listing is shown with the modified location in the virtual box manager
- Right click on the VM and go to settings | storage and you will observe that there is no listing of VMDK file in the Controller section. (the icon will be in red color)
- Add Storage as shown
- Now choose “Choose existing Disk”
- Finally click on “start” to launch the VM from the new location.
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