title: Moving a VirtualBox .vdi Linux machine to a new host computer
body: <p>I've been happily using an Ubuntu 12.04 VM as a webserver with a static IP running on VirtualBox on my Windows 7 machine for a few months (working on it from the host computer, bridged network connection, accessing via SSH from host and sharing folders through windows).</p>
  
  <p>In <code>/etc/network/interfaces</code>, I've got:</p>
  
  <pre><code>address 192.168.1.112
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  network 192.168.1.0
  broadcast 192.168.1.255
  gateway 192.168.1.1
  dns-nameservers 194.168.4.100 194.168.8.100
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried creating a new VM with it on my Win7 laptop by copying across the .vdi and creating a new VirtualBox machine with it, then changing the static IP to <code>192.168.1.116</code>, but I'm not getting any network... It can't ping anything, when I try to SSH into the VM, it says "connection rejected" and it doesn't show up anywhere in my Windows network.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone shed any light?</p>