How to restore a VirtualBox image given the .vdi file

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Published on 2010-12-24T10:50:37Z Indexed on 2010/12/24 10:55 UTC
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Background

I have VirtualBox on Linux and recently the drive with the system files failed on me. I'm able to use the Live CD to view the files of the storage drive, and through this, I can copy my data files to another computer while I work on this one.

How do I load the .vdi in another computer (or in this case, the fresh install of Ubuntu)? I see many samples online of how to export it, but it assumes the host is currently working.

Thanks!

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