Is there a way to change VM data directory path in settings?

[dirk68-fu]

Hi,
I'm trying to change to path where the VM data resides using the settings menu. Unfortunately the dropdown "VM data directory" is disabled and always points. to ~/.local/share/orka/data.
How do I change it?

[abojak]

Greetings Dirk! Orka Desktop does not yet support changing the source directory for VMs within the application. We are about to launch a new product "Orka Engine" (Orka anywhere) that offers CLI control of VMs and comes as a local installer package as well. That product will merge the source directory with Orka Desktop. After that release, we can consider supporting user control of the source VM directory. Orka Engine releases in November of this year. Regards. Andrew Bojak MacStadium Orka PM

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[1stqualifier]

Once you get it integrated I'll definitely give orka desktop a try.

[mgruenthal]

Ditto! Would be very helpful to move VMs to an external drive.

[mgruenthal]

In the meantime, I've worked around this limitation by moving the share folder containing VMs to an external drive and creating a symbolic link (e.g. ln -s /path to new location /Users/me/.local)