What is the best method for setting the virtual hard drive (VDI) of the primary controller for an existing virtual machine?
Does the syntax change if the VDI is really a child differencing disk of some other parent disk? Do you need to attach the parent VDI and then the child VDI in some way?
Situation:
I have an existing VM --- I want to replace the hard drive it uses to boot - with either another normal virtual HD or possibly a differencing disk. Can this be done with VBoxManage?
I am trying to set up a workable model for development. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for Virtual machine software and what process to follow to enable the following:
Is this a pipe dream?
Given my constraints I think I can choose either VMWare Workstation or VirtualBox. But I dont think they will do exactly what I want.
As a compromise - could I use Hyper-V or ESX to create VM templates, create many clones of the templates - and somehow distribute those clones to individual workstations?
My idea with deploying differencing disks/snapshots is that this is practical on a weekly basis - to deploy an update to each individual developer VM that is then merged with the base image. The 'gold image' would then have the diffs merged too - so that all VMs would match without going to the trouble of deleting the existing clones, and cloning from an updated template. You could just keep running the same Vm - just keep applying differncing disks/snapshots.