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<refentry id="vboxmanage-movevm" lang="en">
<refentryinfo>
<pubdate>August 2019</pubdate>
<title>VBoxManage movevm</title>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>VBoxManage-movevm</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>VBoxManage-movevm</refname>
<refpurpose>move a virtual machine to a new location on the host system</refpurpose>
<refclass>Oracle VM VirtualBox</refclass>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-movevm">
<!-- The 'id' is mandatory and must start with 'synopsis-'. -->
<command>VBoxManage movevm</command>
<group choice="req">
<arg choice="plain"><replaceable>uuid</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><replaceable>vmname</replaceable></arg>
</group>
<arg choice="req">--type=basic</arg>
<arg>--folder=<replaceable>folder-name</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
The <command>VBoxManage movevm</command> command moves a virtual
machine (VM) to a new location on the host system.
</para>
<para>
When moved, all of the files that are associated with the VM, such
as settings files and disk image files, are moved to the new
location. The &product-name; configuration is updated
automatically.
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable>uuid</replaceable>|<replaceable>vmname</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>
Specifies the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) or name
of the VM to move.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--type=basic</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Specifies that the type of the move operation is basic.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--folder=<replaceable>folder-name</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem><para>
Specifies a full path name or relative path name of the new
location on the host file system.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<remark role="help-scope" condition="GLOBAL" />
<para>
The following command moves the <filename>ol7</filename> VM to a
new location on the host system.
</para>
<screen>$ VBoxManage movevm ol7 --folder "/home/testuser/vms" --type basic
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Machine has been successfully moved into /home/testuser/vms</screen>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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