VM clone within Virtual Box

Generally, on Windows, we use CTRL+C and CTRL+V to make a copy of an existing file.

However, if you do these with .vdi files, you will not able to add replications to Virtual Media Manager.

Actually, VMbox provides us with easy-to-use tools dealing with this case.

 

Open the root folder of VIRTUALBOX, you will find a file named VBoxManage.exe, which can be used to clone or modify .vdi files.

Since this tool only works under command line, we need to open a command prompt.

Press down SHIFT and then right-click at any space, and then click "open command window here".

After that, type the following command:

VBoxManage clonevdi old.vdi new.vdi

If you wanna see more detailed info about the file, type commands as follows:

VBoxManage showvdiinfo new.vdi

Also, you can compact the .vdi file:

VBoxManage modifyvdi new.vdi compact

 

 

Wish this helps.