On Friday 12 December 2008, walt wrote: > Hi. I'm tracking vbox HEAD via svn and I've been bitten by this bug > a couple of times now. > > When I have several snapshots taking up disk space I delete the oldest > one first (the one at the top of the snapshot list) because I have at > least one newer one that I know is good. Everything seems to go fine > until I open vbox the next time, and now the virtual disk "with UUID > foo is unavailable -- file can't be found". > > The backing file for the virtual disk is still there, but evidently > with a UUID number that's wrong, or maybe the file is corrupt, I > can't tell which. > > So I delete the virtual machine and go to create a new one using > the same virtual disk, but when I do that, vbox just hangs forever, > using no cpu cycles. When I kill vbox it leaves two stuck processes > behind, VBoxXPCOMIPCD and VBoxSVC --automate, which I also need to > kill -9 before I can restart vbox. > > So far I can't find a way to reuse the disk image I still have.
Sounds like a bug which was fixed today. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/
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