VBOX Clone

Making Copies of VDI file.

1. Copy your VDI, rename if necessary
2. Run the command line below (note change in path for my version)
“C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe” internalcommands sethduuid “whatever your VID is called.vdi”
3. In VBOX – File, Virtual Media Manager, New, point to your new VDI copy.
4. In VBOX – Machine, New, Use Existing HD, Select the new file/media you added above in.


Syntax=  VBoxManage clonevdi “path\file.vdi” “path2\file2.vdi”

H:\VirtualBox\5 linux>VBoxManage clonevdi “H:\VirtualBox\5 linux\Feodora11.vdi” “H:\VirtualBox\5 linux\Fedora11 clone.vdi”


1] Path of VBOX Manage
2] Source of clone VDI file with full path
3] Destination of cloned VDI

C:\Documents and Settings\srackham\.VirtualBox\VDI> “C:\ProgramFiles\Sun\xVMVirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe” clonevdi
“C:\Documents and Settings\srackham\.VirtualBox\VDI\Ubuntu 8.04.vdi” “C:\Documents and Settings\srackham\.VirtualBox\VDI\Ubuntu 8.04 clone.vdi” 

VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.0.4 (C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights

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C:\Documents and Settings\srackham\.VirtualBox\VDI>

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And for those who don’t know how to get into the path with the cmd:
Just type
cd C:\Users\Your Username\.VirtualBox\VDI
And then the your command, e.g.:

“C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe” clonevdi
“C:\Documents and Settings\srackham\.VirtualBox\VDI\Ubuntu 8.04.vdi”
“C:\Documents and Settings\srackham\.VirtualBox\VDI\Ubuntu 8.04 clone.vdi”