On 21/01/13 23:13, Cliff Scott wrote: > ** Reply to message from vbox-users <vbox-us...@clevertrove.com> on Mon, 21 > Jan 2013 14:45:30 +0000 > >>> From: Cliff Scott [mailto:c...@intergate.com] >>> >>> I thought I was being smart so I copied a WinXP.vdi file to another name in >>> the same directory using a file manager. I had closed the VM, but VBox >>> manager was still open. Ever since it shows the VM in the list, but it won't >>> even try to start it. The Start button is greyed out. I had just recently >>> backed up the whole directory to another HD so restored from that and it >>> still won't start. When I try to "add" a new machine it says it can't >>> because >>> there is another with the same UUID. How come? All that is in the directory >>> is all freshly copied from the backup HD. How do I fix this mess I caused >>> myself? Thanks for any help. >> For some reason, I thought you were making a backup copy of the machine. So >> I responded based on that assumption. >> >> Now I see Daniel's response, assuming you're trying to clone the machine. So >> I re-read your original post, and now I think Daniel's right. >> >> Can you clarify what you're trying to do? >> >> If you want to clone a machine, the easiest thing to do is use the VirtualBox >> GUI. Machine / Clone. This will change the machine UUID, the hard drive >> UUID, the mac address, etc. But it will NOT change... Your windows system >> id, your netbios name, the IP address you have in the guest (hopefully you're >> using dhcp) ... will not change the windows key, or other software license >> keys in the guest, etc. All of that stuff, you need to manage yourself. > Thanks for the helpful response. I was wanting to make a backup of the VM > since I was going to try to expand its size and didn't want to lose it if > something went wrong. Why the file locking happened I haven't a clue. I > understand regarding the cloning process and have done that. The backups, > which were just straight file copies, I did to another drive worked fine > since I had the VM and the VBox itself shutdown. All I can guess is somehow > the VBox manager sensed that I did something it didn't know about and got > really upset and locked the VM from running. Deleting everything in the VM > directory, rebooting, deleting the remaining files that had been locked and > restoring from the backup drive cleared the issue. I use the export option to take full backups, does mean you have to do the export when clients are not in use and can take a long time on large installs but this seem to be the only real way to make safe backups, anyway this method has saved me on more than one. > > I've gotten the VM disk size increased and just have to get the NTFS file > system expanded to access the additional space. > > Thanks again for your help. > > Cliff > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: > mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
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