I built a vm with the guest OS Windows XP. I have it running exactly the way I need it. Now I need to move it to a computer at another location. My plan was to build the vm and then just copy the ISO and take it to the new system. Specifications: Host OS is a current/up-to-date Fedora 18 I used yum install @virtualization I launched boxes in gnome and installed the guest system (XP) After getting everything running to my specifications I started researching how to move the vm to another system. I have one question: Referring to the information at: http://libvirt.org/migration.html " Migration of guests between hosts is a complicated problem" Can someone please point me to documentation stating why migration is "a complicated problem"?? The vm is powered off. I didn't use encryption (that I'm aware of--and I hope that doesn't bite me but I can re-install if necessary). gnome-boxes made this a pretty-simple setup and I like it. I know with about the same effort I can do this in VMWare, if necessary. I also know with VMWare I can create vm images that are portable and easily transported from system to system. If that is not the case with libvirt and gnome-boxes I'd like to understand why. Even though gnome-boxes made the setup fairly easy I can see where it is still in it's infancy. I thought libvirt was more mature and seems to offer CL access to everything I need (which I really like). Thanks, in-advance, for your help and consideration. ThePowerTool "You're darn right, more power."--Tim "the toolman" Taylor