How to change PATH of VirtualBox images
By Emma Payne •
I have some virtual machines on external drive (have local ones too so I can't just change the path in GUI). I moved the folder with virt. machines again.
Before: /Volumes/6TB_encrypted/only_here/VIRTUAL_HOSTS/
After: /Volumes/6TB_encrypted/VIRTUAL_HOSTS/How to change the path in VirtualBox without unregistering and re-registering the images (machines), or removing and opening .vbox files one by one? Don't want symlinks.
I did not find command line option to change the path.
1 Answer
Edit the Global Settings config file which is located here:
- Linux and Oracle Solaris:
$HOME/.config/VirtualBox - Windows:
$HOME/.VirtualBox - Mac OS X:
$HOME/Library/VirtualBox
Find <MachineRegistry> tag and remove the only_here/ from the src attributes. VirtualBox must not be running.
<MachineRegistry> <MachineEntry uuid="{83c316ae-4bcf-40f7-901e-da4ba7958b6c}" src="/Volumes/6TB_encrypted/only_here/VIRTUAL_HOSTS/centos7/centos7.vbox"/> <MachineEntry uuid="{833b3593-c200-4042-8b49-c583e64cc000}" src="/Volumes/6TB_encrypted/only_here/VIRTUAL_HOSTS/Ubuntu......vbox"/> <MachineEntry uuid="{732c0bd1-9d83-4fe1-bda0-239a1c06929d}" src="/Volumes/6TB_encrypted/only_here/VIRTUAL_HOSTS/centos......vbox"/> <MachineEntry uuid="{f8c6792a-6610-49c4-8d94-71147deb0a88}" src="/Volumes/6TB_encrypted/only_here/VIRTUAL_HOSTS/Ubuntu......vbox"/> <MachineEntry uuid="{90154b7b-ab87-44ad-a83f-7a9e18ed0e72}" src="/Users/ad/VirtualBox VMs/tails/tails.vbox"/>
</MachineRegistry>
