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Clone VirtualBox with a GUI Interface

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So you have the right setup for your Virtual Operating System and you need another OS added to your Virtual Computer.  This software does that in minutes and lets you know the progress.   After completion of the clone, open VirtualBox, Click on New, walk through the wizard and attach the hard drive (clone you created) and you are done.

Cloning your VirtualBox is easier than the command we listed in an earlier post this week.  There is a GUI interface someone created to do just this.

  • Reads VDI,VHD,VMDK or RAW, writes VDI.
  • GUI Interface.
  • A CLI interface if you want
  • Ability to discard unused blocks from the clone (no need to run SDelete/zerofree first).
  • Ability to enlarge the maximum size of a virtual disk.
  • User choice to either keep the old UUID or generate a new one (this identifies your VM).
  • Diagnostics about the original source VDI, including the partition map and the fileystem.
  • A Progress Bar

Link to Download

http://forums.virtualbox.org/download/file.php?id=1359

Written by TTC Shelbyville IT Department

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:50 am at 12:50 am

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