CloneVDIGUI… the alternative to VirtualBox vboxmanage clonehd command
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Virtualbox forum user "mpack" has created another great tool which provides the following features:
- Reads VDI,VHD,VMDK or RAW, writes VDI.
- A simple GUI Interface.
- A CLI interface too (for people who like that kind of thing!)
- Ability to discard unused blocks from the clone (no need to run SDelete/zerofree first).
- Ability to enlarge the maximum size of a virtual disk.
- User choice to either keep the old UUID or generate a new one for the clone.
- Some useful diagnostics about the source VDI, such as the partition map and the internal fileystem.
- Better feedback while cloning: a progress bar and an estimated time to completion.
- It seems to be significantly faster than "VBoxManage clonehd".
- Open source.
Link to latest version of the tool: http://forums.virtualbox.org/download/file.php?id=4671
Link to the forum: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22422
If you still want to use VboxManage clonehd (which works great), here is a great tutorial:
http://www.modhul.com/2009/06/17/how-to-clone-or-copy-a-virtualbox-virtual-disk/