Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#9588 closed defect (worksforme)
VBM clonevm fails to recognise tilda as home directory
| Reported by: | ndastur | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | VM control | Version: | VirtualBox 4.1.0 |
| Keywords: | clonevm | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Linux |
Description (last modified by )
If a virtual machine is cloned using
VBoxManage clonevm Machine2Clone \ --mode=all --name=NewVMName --basefolder=~/VBox/NewVMName --register
The machine will get cloned into
.VirtualBox/~/VBox/NewVMName
So the initial tilda in basefolder is not translated into the user home directory as is expected.
Change History (1)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Resolution: | → worksforme |
| Status: | new → closed |
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The correct syntax is to insert a space between option and parameter instead of '=':
If you use the syntax with '=' then the shell will not detect that this parameter has to be properly extracted. The '=' form is undocumented. It sometimes works in VBoxManage (but not always).