When you create a guest operating system in VirtualBox, the machine image is created in a subfolder bearing its name under the VirtualBox VMs folder in your home directory. Details of how I went about the task follows.įirst a quick introduction to the contents of the VirtualBox folder on a Linux distribution. Those VirtualBox guest operating systems were used for the latest articles I wrote for DigitalOcean, so I needed to recreate them. Luckily, I was able to recover all the data, including the VirtualBox folder that contained the virtual machine images of the guest operating systems that I had installed. And with that, I lost access to data that was on it. So one evening, while I was finishing up a post, it sent the last signal and just died. I just didn’t pay it the attention it deserved. Well, it wasn’t all that sudden, because for weeks prior, it had been sending signals that were not good. vdi image file.Ībout a month ago, one of my hard drives gave up suddenly. Or more correctly, how to create a VirtualBox guest operating system from an existing. This post shows how to import a virtual machine image into VirtualBox.
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