C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage createhd
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.0
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Usage:
VBoxManage createhd --filename <filename>
--size <megabytes>
[--format VDI|VMDK|VHD] (default: VDI)
[--variant Standard,Fixed,Split2G,Stream,ESX]
[--type normal|writethrough] (default: normal)
[--comment <comment>]
[--remember]
The command for creating images in virtualbox dosen't support that, tho its vmware varient seems to. Creating a vmware vmdk would be one option, but who wants to install another installer? There's better approaches
There's a few approaches you might want to try. For one, split up commonly used partitions from less commonly used ones, for example /home will be altered more often, as might /var. so having them as seperate disk images would help a littlr.
Switch to differencing disk images - this would create files with just the changes. Even more efficient bandwidthwise, and you'd only move the changes.