Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> Mark Cranness wrote:
>
> > On 1 November 2011 00:26, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> > > I have a VM with 3 consecutive snapshots, but there's an inaccessible
> > > VDI attached to the oldest snapshot. Actually, I removed that file
> > > after attaching a clone of it to the VM ... bad idea. :-(
> >
> > Close down all running VMs, and the VBox UI, and make sure no
> > instances of VirtualBox.exe or VBoxSvc.exe are running, then...
> >
> > Manually edit the VirtualBox.xml and <VM>.xml files to patch up the
> > snapshots and remove the inaccessible VDI.
> >
> > BACKUP beforehand.
> >
> > AFAIK, for VB 3.x, you will need to edit the VirtualBox.xml AND
> > <VMName>.xml files.
> > For VB 4.x, you will only need to edit the <VMName>.vbox file.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, however, it didn't work.
>
> I removed the <HardDisk> from the <MediaRegistry>, and the corresponding
> <AttachedDevice> from the <StorageController> of the <Snapshot>:
>
>
...
>
> But after that, VBox came up with this message:
>
> Failed to open virtual machine located in D:/ECSIDEVM/ecsidevm/ecside.vbox.
>
> Medium 'D:\ECSIDEVM\ecsidevm\ecsidevm-disk3.vdi' cannot be closed because
> it is still attached to 1 virtual machines.
>
> Result Code: VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE (0x80BB000C)
> Component: Medium
> Interface: IMedium {53f9cc0c-e0fd-40a5-a404-a7a5272082cd}
> Callee: IVirtualBox {c28be65f-1a8f-43b4-81f1-eb60cb516e66}
> Callee RC: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
>
> This is irritating, because that is not the VDI I removed but another one.
>
> Do you think I could have more luck with a clone of the VM?
yes, a clone of the VM did the trick (... as I wasn't interested in the
other snapshots anyway). After that, I removed the whole original VM.
Thank you & have a nice day,
Berny
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