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<refentry id="vboxmanage-movevm" lang="en">
<refentryinfo>
<pubdate>$Date: 2022-08-22 19:43:14 +0200 (Mon, 22 Aug 2022) $</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>&product-name;</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>--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 the type of the move operation. So far
<literal>basic</literal> is the only recognized value and also
the default if not specified.
</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. Not specifying the option
or specifying the current location is allowed, and moves
disk images and other parts of the VM to this location if
they are currently in other locations.
</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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