steve1977 Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 I currently have my VM installed on a cache drive. For various reasons, I would like to move it to another disk. Is this possible and (if so) how to move/copy the VM image to another disk. I assume it would yet again be a cache disk. Any issue with the Win8.1 license? Do I need to recreate a new VM or is it as easy as copy&paste? Thanks in advance!!! Link to comment
aptalca Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Very easy. Stop the VM Telnet into unraid or use the main console if you have a keyboard and monitor attached to the server Open Midnight Commander (type "mc") Copy the vm disk file to whatever location you want (You can see the original location and file name if you click on the VM in unraid gui and hit edit. It is listed as primary vDisk location) After the copy is finished, edit the VM by clicking on the VM logo and selecting edit, and change the primary vDisk location to point to the new file location Start VM Profit Link to comment
steve1977 Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 Brilliant, thanks for your quick reply!!! Can I do the same even without telnet? I could just mount two cache drives and then copy&paste through Windows Explorer? Link to comment
aptalca Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Brilliant, thanks for your quick reply!!! Can I do the same even without telnet? I could just mount two cache drives and then copy&paste through Windows Explorer? Sure, but if you're on wifi, it might take a long time. See, when you copy from one smb share to another in windows, it will first copy all the data to your windows machine and then send it to the other share. Wifi speed will create a bottleneck for sure. But it should work nonetheless Link to comment
steve1977 Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 Perfect, thanks! Link to comment
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