I have been struggling with the feature of export / import appliance in VirtualBox for a couple of days now and every time it failed and my frustration grew. The problem i had was that my guest system couldn’t find its partitions after import.

Finally i found the issue, it was due to that my guest OS(openSUSE) called the partition by name ID instead of with device name, the ID was unique to the machine being exported thus changed for the new imported machine.

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VirtualBox is an excellent tool for virtualization on desktops, it works on many base systems as Ubuntu, Windows and so forth. This how-to is aimed at Ubuntu version 7.10 & 8.04 and the closed binary with USB support not the OSE version. Even tho VirtualBox still is somewhat unpolished it is a stable, quick and feature rich virtualization software, one that i consider as the best for desktop virtualization.

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