How to Move Your VirtualBox VM to an External Drive

Thank you very much !!!

It's a really very helpful video! I was thinking to install Kali Linux but on a flash drive for storage use, do u think it will work well. Thank you so much for your helpful video. May God bless you dear! 💌💌💌

You need only .vdi file to export?

I'm planning to transfer my VM from my host to my external drive using this method. But I have files inside my VM. Are my files also going to be transferred together with my VM? If not, are the files going to be all eliminated, or what will happen to them?

I moved it to the external drive but now it says there’s no bootable medium found. Do you know what could’ve happened?

How do I power off my vm without it returning to installation mode when I restart? I tried removing the iso bit usually get a "no bootable media error".

Hi thanks I wanted to actually upgrade my windows from 8.1 to 10 and I wanted to keep all of my files and settings, therefore I used your tutorial, and thanks for that, but now the situation is that after the windows upgrade I want to put everything back in VM in a new window, with the same VM kali settings, kindly tell me how to do it. Kind Regards A

Very helpful video! I was thinking to install Ubuntu Linux but on a flash drive for the storage use, do u think it will work good enough running straight from a flash drive and lets say 2gb of RAM?

mine is like 13 GB lmao

The fact that he says acutely don’t delete does files got me to sub

Recommend that you make a test VM before trying this.

Whats the point of a virtual machine?

Great vid Ben, what is the impact on speed of the VM's?

Most detailed explanatory video I've seen so far.
You should keep creating videos, you have good talent.

Dude thank you. I asked a guy from IT at work and he said it was not possible, but you have given me hope. Definitely will subscribe and view your other content. Cheers!

Love your videos so much Ive watched like three of them and they were all so thoroughly detailed. Thank you so much :)

Thank you Sir for this very much useful video!! Made my task easy!

Very informative video,
Thanks a lot !

Is there a way to image the XP VDI/VHD onto an external drive such that it boots/runs from another laptop via USB/SATA cable?

none of these solved my problem

Thanks-- huge help in a pinch!!!

Hi after following this tutorial , i successfully moved the files to an external hdd but when i try to start up my vm it shows that all my vms are now inaccessible! any idea how to solve this??

Thanks , it's helpful !!!!!!

Will this damaged the data in our ext HDD? I am kinda scared about it

Please help! it wont move when i click move no matter what i do. looks like the USB i have is FAT so it wont accept more than 4GB 1 file? what's the solution then? Thank you

It was really helpful , Thank You So Much.....

Super useful thank you so much! My only question is what format should I have my external hard drive on. Mine is on fat 32 rn. ty.

you have my thanks for this awesome video. this saved me a lot of time and money. very much helpful.

How do I move it back?

I moved it to my 1tb ssd but the virtual machine is not booting it stays on the windows loading page. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

hello thanks for instruction. after doing this also how to move the windows documents as well into the external drive.

Very helpful!!

I'm wondering, once I move it to the External can I increase the size of the storage?
I accidentally set it up with too little storage. Please advise. Thanks!

This is doesn’t work on windows

Warning! If you do this you will have to use your USB, if you unplug it and plug it, it may show you a ? on a VM.

Very thoughrough and clear.

subscribed ! awsome & easy explanaion

Hi, thanks for the video. Really helpful. Does it matter how the thumb drive is formatted? (ExFat, Mac OS formats etc)? I’m asking because I have a 4Tb external drive partitioned to 2 different formats.

I screwed up. I'm deleting everything including the ISO and starting all over.

I love this video so much, however, I have a question: my external hard drive contains over 1 TB of space, if I choose to store my VM there am I able to set the size to over 300 GiGs, etc?

what about VMWARE? thank you !

great vid thumbs up as first time when I needed something and found exact what I was searching for

Really helpful. Thanks!!

Thanks, Need more tutorial about storages. Coz my C drive is running low and I want to use my SSD C drive to run my VM and use another drive for my downloads inside VM

Hi, thanks for the very helpful video, I got a question though because I want to completely move my virtual machines to a new computer and work from there, following your instructions it looks like I can just save it to the files to a flash drive and then save it to the new computer's hard drive and use the virtual box 's new machine set up that you did and select the file location. my question is will this virtual machine created on the new computer using the existing .vdi file we saved from the flash drive, will this machine on the new computer be in the same state as it would've been on the old computer? what I mean is like will it keep the settings and any updates I made previously on the VM itself? hopefully what I'm saying makes sense and if you can help answer that, thankyou.

Your videos are so helpful!!
 
Any insight/ videos on how to increase the storage on the VM now that it's on an external HD with much more storage? Thanks again!

Also let's not forget the Export Appliance feature, which allows you to package up the VM and all its necessary files into one portable file. You'd primarily want to use this for backup purposes when maybe getting a new disk drive rather than moving a VM in use on your current storage configuration.

After I move the vm to my hard drive, can I remove the hard drive and plug it back in when I want to use the vm?

Would I be able to transfer it to an external flash drive ? Basically a USB stick ?

Thank you.

bruh your system is about to take off!