VirtualBox and the USB flash drive -

[Bill Oliver]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:

>
> Am 01.08.2013 21:02, schrieb Bill Oliver:
>> One more note.  As I've mentioned before, I do a full wipe and installation periodically on my machines.  This can
>> be a hassle if one is left re-installing other virtual OSs as well.  I have found that, with VirtualBox, I can
>> simply back up the ./.VirtualBox directory and the "VirtualBox VMs" directory, and then copy them back into my home
>> directory after the reinstall of Linux
>
> is virtualbox still so poor that you can't have simply all files
> related to a VM inside a single directory and need to manage
> virtual disks and iso-images that weird way as a few years ago?
>
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I don't understand your complaint -- that there's a config directory *and* a disk directory?  I don't find that an overwhelming burden.

The command "cp -R" doesn't seem to be too onerous a way to transfer stuff from machine to machine.

billo