From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED0C1392EF for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:07:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 102D6E0AFD; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB94BE0AEE for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:07:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D26AA33FFC8 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:07:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 3.161 X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.161 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.903, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2=2, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=0.865, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mc2rIXHv3q5U for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:07:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 647AB33FF41 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:07:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X918K-00015C-Kw for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 02:07:12 +0200 Received: from 216.240.130.109 ([216.240.130.109]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 02:07:12 +0200 Received: from w41ter by 216.240.130.109 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 02:07:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Before strewing things up beyong recovery...(virtualbox) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:07:02 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20140720142230.GA3819@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.240.130.109 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: <20140720142230.GA3819@solfire> X-Archives-Salt: 758984ba-cf77-41f2-99b2-58014c9c6ef8 X-Archives-Hash: 4ee8adca6e1570eac7bbbf0f5daad24b On 07/20/2014 07:22 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > I set up virtual box successfully with one image. So nice so far. > Unfortunately I did not recognize early enought, thet the image was > placed into my home directory, which is short of splace. > > Can I move that folder (".Virtualbox") to another bigger place > -- and what/how do I need to tell Virtualbox about that Yes, move .Virtualbox anyplace you want, then make a symlink named .Virtualbox in your home directory pointing to the real .Virtualbox directory. Don't forget the leading "." when making the symlink.