I have now figured that the problem seems to be the format itself. If I used
'vmdk' instead of 'vdi' then it works. How is that possible, if using
VBoxManage I can create VDI images? Do I have to pass a different set of
parameters when using VDI? Or is a different type of image (
MediumVariant) required when doing createBaseStorage() with the vdi format?
Anyone got any pointers?
Maxime Dor <[email protected]> schrieb am 8:35 Sonntag, 8.Juni 2014:
Then I don't know :( no such exception is documented (even tho its
significance is clear) and I don't know which parameter is wrong or invalid.
Hopefully the devs will have an answer.
On 6 June 2014 17:01, Karoline Haus <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes it is an array. The type of size is int as there is no long type in Python.
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>Maxime Dor <[email protected]> schrieb am 15:07 Freitag, 6.Juni 2014:
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>Never wrote python, but it looks good. Can you simply confirm that
>self.vboxMgr.constants.MediumVariant_Standard is given in an array? (it looks
>like but not sure).
>Else, the size needs to be a long, if such type exists in Python.
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>On 6 June 2014 11:28, Karoline Haus <[email protected]> wrote:
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>This is the very simple code that fails over and over again and I don't know
>how to fix it:
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>>format='vdi'
>>diskImagePath='/home/user/test.vdi'
>>size=10000000
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>>hdd = self.vboxMgr.vbox.createHardDisk(format, diskImagePath)
>> try:
>> progress = hdd.createBaseStorage(size,
>> (self.vboxMgr.constants.
>> MediumVariant_Standard,))
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>>...
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>>This code throws an exception and tells me error code VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER
>>as mentioned above. Any idea how to fix this?
>>It fails in createBaseStorage().
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>>Thanks!
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>>Maxime Dor <[email protected]> schrieb am 8:58 Freitag, 6.Juni 2014:
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>>Provide the part of your code that fails please, else it's a bit hard to give
>>you pointers.
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>>On 5 June 2014 16:25, Karoline Haus <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>Hi I'm trying to create a virtual hard drive using the Python API.
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>>>I can successully create the IMedium object using
>>>IVirtualBox::createHardDisk() but then when I try to call
>>>createBaseStorage() on that object, I can an error saying "Error in module
>>>Medium (VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER)" but I do not get any further details on
>>>what the problem is.
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>>>According to the SDK documentation, the only error for this function should
>>>be if the medium format is not supported by my system ("The variant of
>>>storage creation operation is not supported."), but I am just trying to
>>>create a VDI disk, and when I list the HDD backends using VBoxManage, it is
>>>definitely supported. The path I'm trying to create the virtual disk under
>>>is also accessible and writable.
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>>>
>>>What else can the problem be? I do not seem to be able to dig deeper into
>>>this. I'm using the MediumVariant_Standard variant, so there is nothing
>>>special about this either.
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>>>
>>>Any pointers would be really appreciated.
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