On 02/28/2015 03:55 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I set up a practice virtualbox instance as keithl, and now want to > move it to user "sally" on the same machine, or share it with her. > Is there an easy way to do that? What files should I copy or > link? Only one user using one instance at a time. > > Alternately, is there a way to set up su or sudo so that sally > can run a shell script to run my instance as keithl? I fiddled > with that, but again virtualbox seems unable to find all the > files it needs. > > Keith > Hi Keith:
I've done this a few times. Vbox stores its configuration (and by default, its disk image files) within the user's .VirtualBox directory, in VirtualBox.xml. If you have plenty of disk and don't mind maintaining a second Windows VM, you can simply copy that whole directory to sally's home dir and and adjust the file permissions, *and* edit the paths in her VirtualBox.xml to point at her files instead of keithl's. Alternatively you can move move the HardDisks directory from keithl/.VirtualBox to a shared location, and then copy the .VirtualBox dir to /home/sally and modify both users VirtualBox.xml files accordingly. HTH, Joe ________________________________________ Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA 至誠 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
