On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:12 AM, John A. Wallace <jw72...@verizon.net> wrote: > In the instruction there is an illustration with an image, step #7, but its > image is not exactly like what I see when I start to create a hard disk for > the VM. It may be an older version on which the illustration is based.
Here is what the steps look like on the current version, FWIW http://imageshack.us/a/img543/7093/95583658.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img194/9260/90125828.jpg > Nevertheless, I was able to get around this step by using two steps. First I > created a VM without any disk whatsoever. Secondly, after I created it, I > went into the settings dialogue for the Storage devices and used the > existing Sata Controller to add a disk at that point. 1. Can you try adding it as an IDE (not sata) drive and see if it makes any difference?. 2. Btw, the error message certainly looks like a file access permission. Are you sure the file referenced is actually there?. While older Virtualbox versions placed vdi or vmdk images in the ".virtualbox" folder (even on Windows) in the user´s home dir, the disk images are now (after v4.0) stored in the subfolder of each machine name. See here http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html 3. I´m puzzled by the lack of the second % after USERPROFILE in the error message. I don´t know if that was an actual missing character in the error dialog or you left it out while transcribing it to your email. "Permission problem accessing the file for the medium '%USERPROFILE\.VirtualBox\usb.vmdk' (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED)." In any case, I wonder why the need to use the %USERPROFILE% environment variable instead of just using fixed paths (ie c:\users\YOURUSERNAMEHERE\(rest of the path here) FC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ 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
