Virtual box for windows

Thanks. :) was just downloading the VMware trial but decided to go with Virtualbox. Just installing XP now, i'd forgotten how long it takes to install it. :p
 
Right, XP's installed and raring to go. Just a few question:

Is there any easy way of moving files from my pc to the virtual box directly (I guess sticking them on a USB stick may work but that's harder said than done at the moment).

Snapshots: I take it that's a sort of rollback option so if you stuff up you can just rollback to any snapshot an it be fine again?

I'll probably have a few more questions in a minute but that's all for now :D
 
Microsoft VirtualPC works well too. Maybe not as feature packed as the other vm's, but its free and gets the job done ;) VirtualBox Memory leaks on my machine making it unusable. Cant even finish installing win7 in it before all 8gb ram is used up and system crawls. (Wanted to try its 3d acceleration mainly)
 
Hmmm, now I have a problem, it's nicely saving all the images and data (other than the initial HDD) into my Users directory, which is all very well but it's filled up my small C Drive... I've changed the default Hard disk and machine folders to another drive but it hasn't made a blind bit of difference. I need to move the .Virtualbox out of the users folder as it's over 6GB already, however I can't at the moment or it won't work...
 
The configuration is just stored in XML, so move the HardDisks folder and change the HardDisk locations in VirtualBox.xml - a quick find and replace in notepad and you should be good to go.
 
Quick question /slight hijack.....if one is running a VM and you shut down the Host PC is everything lost within that VM? Or can you save its state before shutting down then resume it later on?
 
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