From the course: Linux for PHP Developers
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Exporting VMs for reuse
- [Instructor] When collaborating with a team, it can be useful to create a guest with a common configuration and share that guest with others. VirtualBox allows virtual machines to be both exported and imported, in a common standard know as the Open Virtualization Format, or OVF. The result, a virtual appliance, is a disk image with configuration settings that can be easily distributed across platforms. OVF does not support snapshots, so only the current state of the virtual machine will be exported. Virtual appliances can optionally include multiple virtual machines in a single package, but we'll only be exporting one. With that context, let's export our virtual machine. From the Oracle VM VirtualBox manager, right click on the Sandbox, go to Close, ACPI Shutdown and then confirm. This will gracefully power off the machine. Now that the machine is off, go up to the File menu and select Export Appliance. We'll need to choose the virtual machines to export. Notice that I said…
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