Moving WIN7 VM

I tried to move my activated windows 7 Virtualbox VM without loosing my activation between opensuse 12.1 to a brandnew opensuse12.2 installation. The version of Virtualbox has changed too, to 4.2.4. The old vdi-file was mounted on

1. /vdi with the filename win7.vdi

   This is important: So the *.vbox-file includes the correct pathes

2. In suse12.2 I made mountpoints suse12.1 and windvdi and mounted the partitions as root

   		mount /dev/sda1 /suse12.1
   		mount /dev/sda5 /winvdi
   			

3. Made a target directory in suse12.2 for the *.vdi (names must match!!)

   		mkdir /vdi
   			

4. Now copy the win7.vdi file

   		cp /winvdi/win7.vdi /vdi
   			

   The harddisk should be busy for a time (on my ssd's it takes 50 seconds for 10 GB). Check the owner!
5. Copy the description files

   cp -r /suse12.1/[myhome]/VirtualBox VMs/win7 [myhome]/VirtualBox VMs/
   			

6. Save the VirtualBox.xml (it includes a Machine-UUID)

   	cd [myhome]/.VirtualBox
   	cp VirtualBox.xml VirtualBox.xml.saved 
   			

7. Now move the description-file

   cp /suse12.1/[myhome]/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml ./
   			

8. Start VirtualBox, start win7-VM and enjoy that activation had survived the locomotion

caveats